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Just imagine, a Disconnected world in chaos, suffering from, worrying about, and debilitated by pandemics while china is free to do whatever it pleases without rousing any attention at all. | The worst part is, china gets zero accountability and take no responsibility for the lives lost and damages done. | 0 |
He really is. I had no idea until he purchased Twitter, honestly. I had always thought of him as a planetary activist based on nothing more than owning Tesla. How informed I’ve become in the last 6 or 7 months. Wanting an EV myself, I would never purchase a Tesla. | Does this guy know who buys Tesla’s? It’s fascinating watching him alienate his entire customer base, lol. Guess who won’t be buying another Tesla ever again? | 1 |
\ Of course given it's location, it benefits substantially from being in NATO as well, and unlikely to do so much as to leave or get kicked out. | Yea, that's great, but individual defensive pacts will never be as potent as NATO, with all the countries involved. Additionaly, the agreement between Sweden and the US won't necessarily have the same requirements/agreements as NATO has. My understanding is that it's not a "bilateral defensive pact" a la article 5 "if ... | 1 |
I'm pretty sure this ofensive is a last gasp, desperate move by Russia to try to reclaim some land before the western tanks start arriving in Ukraine. Russia knows after the Ukrainians are trained and running in technologically superior tanks, that there's not much they can do to stop them. | No surprise that now Ukraine is targeting artillery in large numbers to cut russia's offensive back-bone. Commanders can once again delay until more artillery arrives or go ahead with insufficient shelling. | 1 |
More likely the AK-12 or AK-74 pattern rifles (which are in 5.45×39 instead of 7.62×39 from the AK-47/AKM). | The rifles in the video clearly have the more curved magazine of the AK-47/AKM. Also, the two larger holes on the wooden heat shield is another dead giveaway, as that is the stock heat shield on AK-47. AKM is just the stamped version of the AK-47, so those two are very similar. The AK-74, which you nonchalantly compare... | 1 |
If they're under a work visa for a couple of years they only should be able to vote in their home country since that's where they will be returning to, they shouldn't be able to vote in the country they work temporarily in. | Whilst being an immigrant for 2 decades I chose to never vote in any election in my own homeland even though I had that right because in my view people who don't live there and don't have to suffer the consequences of their choice shouldn't be making choices for those who DO live there. | 1 |
AA guns like the Gepard can and have helped thin those barrage down since they have to travel low and slow over a large territory. Ukraine just needs more. | There’s no prohibition against Ukraine developing its own weapons (like Neptune). With under the table assistance from its allies Ukraine can surpass Russias’s junk in capability and volume. | 0 |
“While it could take hundreds or thousands of years, the ice shelf could disintegrate much sooner, triggering a retreat of the glacier which is both unstable and potentially irreversible.”. | So melting will probably take a very long time (century timescale) while a progressive collapse might happen much sooner (years to decades). | 1 |
Ukrainian Military Intelligence has stated that the Major Offensive that is being planned for Spring will take place in Southeastern Ukraine and will be intended to drive a wedge between Crimea and Mainland Russia. | This could very well be misdirection, but I honestly believe Ukraine is going to retake Mariupol and cut off the land bridge to Crimea for a major blow to the Russians. | 1 |
Doesn't mean I agree with it, doesn't mean I don't think its not disrespectful. But I wholeheartedly agree that it's just a fucking flag and my despite if someones or mine feelings get hurt that someones burning their own property doesn't give the government a right to persecute them for that. | I agree, though I don't agree on their agenda, the demonstration was perfectly legal and burning any other flag than the Finnish one is not against the law so I don't really see a problem here. | 1 |
It has nothing to do with the Euro. Just greedy retailers seeing an opportunity to rip people off with overinflated prices in the confusion of conversion. | This has nothing to do with Euro itself, it's just opportunistic businesses using the situation to rip people off. | 1 |
And? They can’t stop paying customers from walking in and buying burgers. I feel duty-bound to say, I don’t support Trump, but McDonalds would be wayyy out of bounds to refuse service on the basis of political ideology. | Just to clarify though, legally speaking McDonalds would be well within bounds to refuse service to anyone they want for purely political reasons. Plenty of businesses do and this kind of autonomy is regularly championed by the right when it's something they agree with. But socially/politically yes it would be a shitst... | 1 |
The idea in principle is that with or without VAT, the business would have charged about $X for their product. | Which is a very simplistic few of the whole thing. There are plenty of countries with so many import taxes, VAT, etc, that goods are very clearly overpriced and would not be so pricey without all of that, because of undercutting. The price stabilizes usually at a point that grants profit leading to a 'desirable' level ... | 0 |
The poor int he depression did have it significantly worse and I think that’s where he’s drawing the parallel. Granted it is a dumb thing to say with so much wealth, he could change millions of peoples lives if he chose to. | Imagine how much better off they'd be if wealth inequality wasn't as disgustingly lopsided as it is. | 1 |
In the same argument a conservative will tell you that the Constitution is sacred and the highest law of the land, but then say that it is outdated and either needs to be changed, rewritten, or scrapped entirely. It all depends on whatever argument they're trying to make right now. | Unfortunately the only real response from the Dems has been the right response, taking the high road and saying that the maps should be nonpartisan. | 0 |
OPEC refused to increase supply; the US has stopped issuing oil drilling permits leases. I'd love for India to cut of Russian oil, but who else has enough to support the oil needs of a developing nation with 1.3 billion people? | However, if some rich investors were to come in and provide funding for oil alternatives (climate financing), India would be able to reduce its oil dependence and therefore its Russian oil imports. | 0 |
The ALL CAPS and 'Breaking' rule is applied even when the actual title of the article is in all caps or contains the word 'Breaking'. This rule may be applied to other single word declarative and/or sensational expressions, such as 'EXCLUSIVE:' or 'HOT:'. | Your headline must be comprised only of the exact copied and pasted headline of the article - ) We recommend not using the Reddit 'suggest a title' as it may not give the exact title of the article. | 0 |
This is ALL about their political careers & they couldn’t care less about real people’s lives. I feel as strongly as I do because both my parents are survivors of the Indian Residential Schools & the horrors that went along with those places. Even in their late 70’s they still have not been able to find some sense of s... | It should be really obvious to most people that this is a political sideshow. I have never been to a drag show, wouldn't know where to go to see one, and really will not be affected in any way by drag shows occurring but this is what the GOP wants to spend their time on. | 1 |
If we can be adults and recognize how different mental health conditions can and cannot influence somebody's ability to fulfill their role as a public servant and representative, it's a fine conversation. We should be able to scrutinize not just how we feel about candidates, but their actual capabilities to govern and ... | It isn't our job to convince people that they should be discerning, and no amount of self-censorship will convince them out of the propaganda hole they fall into. I'm not catering to stupid people who won't change their minds anyway. | 0 |
I missed the part that said they had to base their diets around meat. I did reach the part in the bill that pushes for nutritional education and heathy diet coaching. But that was not mentioned in the posted article. It’s almost like they have agenda they want to promote. | The only thing you listed that actually has health benefits is chicken and only white meat chicken is healthy for human consumption and only if it is grilled and trimmed. I mean 50 years of medical research has shown what is healthy and unhealthy. Seems like the people trying to pass this law are the only ones that car... | 0 |
And the thing being _totally ignored_ is the fact that disruptive protesting works, has worked, and will continue to work. | The problem being pointed out here isn’t wrong: protesting that is disruptive only turns people off of a cause. At the same time, non-disruptive protests are promptly ignored. At what point does protesting become more than a placebo to prevent people from getting violent? | 1 |
Well, Yes and no. You make it sound like they resorted to drafting every last One they can get, when really they haven't even started seriously drafting/mobilisation yet. Unlike Ukraine which has gone full mobilisation immediately. Most of Russias potential manpower is still sitting at home. So, desperation only in the... | Problem is, those long range weapons could backfire. While totally understandable, firing back into russian borders is a dangerous Game and straight up opposing NATOs strategy. As it could end up helping Putin to get support among the russian civillians for mobilisation, which he so far does not have. And Russia full o... | 0 |
This isn't taking agency away from a black man because he's black. It's because he's a black man already setting himself up as an enabler of white supremacy by denying CRT, denying the US has a racism problem, and shitting on the legacies of people like MLK (who he claims would agree with him). | How can you look at Donalds, who is very really denying what is a reality for much of non-white Americans, and think he's not either an idiot or a liar? | 0 |
I get the arguments that Patriot is vulnerable because it is, but I think the reality is that the fact that Ukraine STILL retain enough anti-air to deny Russians free reign over the country puts lie to the notion that these are going to be sitting ducks. The Patriot system is HIGHLY effective against ballistic missiles... | Patriot missile system are defensive systems so Russia is upset if we shot down even ballistic missiles. | 1 |
My father always talks about how democracy ruined the country, how it was better before, etc. Yet here they are reaping the benefits of democracy. | This is a war for liberal democracy. It's a war for the global legal and diplomatic frameworks that enable peace, prosperity, and safety. It's a war for nationhood, for independence, for self-determination, and for humanity itself. | 1 |
Poland in particular is in the news every day about how Germany isn't forthcoming, while Germany said (when asked) that they never got the necessary formal request to begin with. | If Germany were to actually consider the media report a valid request and approve it, the next time some politician in Poland talks to the media would need to be considered valid as well? Or only for members of the cabinet? What if it's just local press at some evening event with alcohol? Or a demand of Germany twitter... | 1 |
You to a conservative: Did you hear that Biden let three other Chinese balloons enter US airspace and did nothing about it? We, as citizens, weren’t even informed! | Exactly. When someone tells me that Biden may have broken the law, my reaction is to say that he should be investigated and punished if that is the case. I don’t find the accusation that Biden broke the law as a personal affront to my entire world view. I simply don’t identify with politicians that personally. | 0 |
trump was being hounded after his June 1st attack on protesters to call in the military to kill the 1st amendment. Milley came out and said the military wouldn't be used for political purposes. | It's why January 6th happened. After his idiotic bible photoshoot he realized he didn't have the man power through the government to overthrow the government. So he used his violent cult to do it. | 0 |
Maybe a good way for NATO to communicate its interest in Belarus would be to send text messages to soldiers in Belarus who seem to have moles that a dermatologist should check out. | Perhaps NATO should do some more military exercises on Russia's and Belarussia's other borders to even things up. Maybe they could blockade some of Russia's ports & shipping while they're at it. | 1 |
To be clear, I have no problem with people who choose to consume almond milk, or any other alternate form of milk, but it should be called juice. Almond milk should be milk flavored with almond. | But It does have a qualifier in front of it, it's say "Almond Milk". Almond is a type of plant, hence it's a "Plant Milk". Still a milk even by your definition. | 1 |
Last week I posted a comments similar to yours about getting things in writing and being held to the same standards the working class is held to. I'd love to have every member of Congress apply for a regular job that requires background, credit, and security checks along with drug testing. I suspect a whole bunch of fo... | You know people are already furiously writing books and screenplays about this. I'd be curious to know who all knew this guy was this much of a fraud. Makes me wonder if there's something more than party line politics. And I pay virtually no attention to conspiracy theories. But I mean c'mon. | 0 |
The gist of the exception is that you don’t need permission for weather balloons to go into other countries airspace, and those counties agree to leave the weather balloons alone unless they pose a safety risk. TL;DR, Weather balloons don’t have to worry about sovereign borders. | Don't worry, I don't believe for a second it was an innocent weather balloon anyway. Even if it was really just a weather balloon, China was still probably testing what it can get away with. China began scrubbing all old news about balloons in the Chinese internet. It's clearly hiding something. | 1 |
Trump’s dealing with Saudi, UAE, and Israel are corrupt, but his dealings with Russia are a threat to western democracy in our war with global fascism. | All of that doesn’t preclude the fact that Trump and Kushner were also compromised by Saudi, the UAE, and Israel. | 0 |
and somehow phrase as if that's the liberals agenda when it's the conservative's. So their argument is a lie. There is a differ nce between something being a liberal idea and being the linerals idea. | Lineral just means without restriction. But for political grouping liberals are socialy liberal while libertarians are economically liberal. | 0 |
Somebody will argue that was years ago but unfortunately Instead of teaching new generation about terrible past Ukrainian government proclaimed past Nazi collaborators as a national heroes. | Also the past is important, babi yar was 80 years ago, most survivors are still alive and thier children are all alive , to ignore what Ukraine did to us is stupid, cause they killed 150k Jews in WW2 alone, and almost a million in the 20th century Alone , we said never forget and never forgive, and we stick by our prom... | 1 |
Rail stops also encourage development around the stops. It's an infill strategy. choosing where a rail like goes in is in effect choosing where development happens, so you can drive density to specific neighbors. Auto infrastructure just spreads people out further, and creates dead unpleasant parts of the city where yo... | that's actually kind of the point though, you lived next to a light rail so there was stuff nearby. you can also displace traffic with it. people never willingly do that because people are the worst but it's a lot easier for city planners to make the case of not investing in auto infrastructure when there's a real seco... | 0 |
Exactly. It's classic imperialism. And the worse thing is, with every territory they invade, the stronger they get. | Seriously. It's harder to find a conflict with a more clear divide between good and evil. Hell, even WW2, between Germany and the USSR was one evil dictator fighting a war against another evil dictator. In this conflict, we have literal evil empire on the march, trying to squash the freedom of an innocent people who bo... | 0 |
EDIT: I'm not saying guns should be allowed. I am against A2 generally, and it's obvious that if you take away guns, you have less gun violence. You still have violence. But gun violence is way too easy: grab gun, point, shoot, kill. | If turning in my guns would get rid of gun violence I would do it. Problem is that there are so many guns in this country, if responsible law abiding people turned theirs in, only criminals and gang members would have them. Uvalde and other incidents have showed us that the police have no duty to protect us and that wh... | 1 |
Like anything else, it's pretty complicated. The Bush administration did nothing in 2004 to prevent Aristide's ouster, the UN did nothing in 91 to prevent Aristide's first ouster, the US cut deals with some genuinely awful people to restore Aristide to power in 94. Anyone who views the issues in Haiti from the very eth... | This decision is pretty unpopular with a lot of Haitians on the ground despite political support, but Canada's hands are kind of tied as the only alternative - which would be (and look) much worse - is doing nothing. | 1 |
I love Victoria, it's an amazing city. I think we could do better to help the unhoused here, but we already do quite a bit, and it's pretty normal for there to exist outdoor urban campsites for unhoused individuals. | That way, the only homeless people on the actual streets would be the ones that are easiest to rehouse (just put them in permanent supportive low income housing). All of the crazy/drug addled ones should be in massively reformed psychiatric care asylums. | 1 |
After that, he was about to lose the governorship to a Democrat, which was unheard of Indiana, and he saw a way out by stepping out of the race to be veep for Trump. I believe he fully expected to lose, but thought he would be seen as the serious mature adult in the room who stepped up to save a failing campaign, and g... | For real. In some ways I think he may worse than Trump, because he enabled him while doing his evangelical schtick that Trump was an imperfect vessel etc. | 0 |
1. Russia, not a real party anymore, have made themselves North Korean level of travesty, intentionally. | Lavrov said, "On the one hand, they keep spinning the irresponsible narrative that Russia is about to use nuclear weapons against Ukraine, and citing some statements by the Russian political leadership. In reality, there have been no such statements.". | 1 |
I would guess it's very likely they did, but the primary motivation was that it tasted better and smelled better. | It could be that it was safer, so we did it, and then developed the appreciation for the aroma, but I'm not sure there was enough time for that. So, I think somehow cooked food was naturally more appealing. | 0 |
Like yeah, destroy Russia's influence and fear factor on the world stage, kill (edit: and wound) over 100,000 Russian soldiers/conscripts, destroy or lose much of their modern military equipment, get neutral nations to apply to NATO and double the Russian border with NATO members, get the EU and UK to drastically reduc... | All that, just to cripple Ukraine's power infrastructure for the coming winter. All part of Putin's original plan from the start. Uh-huh. Sure. | 0 |
You are the one who said Biden reported himself so it must have relevant to you an it’s clearly not true. I’m not saying they did anything wrong. what I’m saying is let’s not jump to conclusions that they did everything right. They kept this to themselves since 11/02. Before the election. They had no intention of telli... | Actually we know someone didn’t follow the rules. You don’t accidentally take classified documents. He may have forgotten he had them in multiple locations but that doesn’t look good either. We don’t know, when they were discovered, if they did follow the rules. Right now it looks like they might have but Biden was sla... | 0 |
“Many Africans in regions without French influence view France as the enemy of Africa as a whole at this point”. | Many Africans in regions without French influence view France as the enemy of Africa as a whole st this point... | 1 |
It's literally been stated by NATO, nuclear fallout affecting an allied nation would be a justifiable trigger for article 5. I have no reason to think the nations that would be affected by the fallout from a nuke ukraine (if there is any fallout as you said, there may not be) would hesitate to hit the button. | But using any nukes at all in this fashion would have to result in russia getting cut off, and all nations in this know it including china. Otherwise it sends a message that nukes are OK to use as long as there's no fallout in neighboring nations and I don't think any nation, US and china included, want that memo. | 0 |
And yet Belarus still isn’t a full party to the conflict, so after defeating the early attempt to take Kiev, Ukraine has been able to focus troops and resources on fighting the Russians in the east and northeast. | The fact that Ukraine hasn’t been regularly carrying out strikes on Belarus for the whole last year should be proof that Ukrainian command also thinks that passing up targeting Russian assets based in Belarus is worth avoiding pulling them fully into the invasion. | 0 |
The kind of Republicans competing with the likes of Trump and DeSantis and the positions they would need to take on to emerge victorious in a nationwide primary would make them wholly unpalatable to any kind of center-left voter. | The only way any Republican should win a majority is by stop pandering for the fascist and lunatic votes, and start being honest on issues to win more of the centrists. | 1 |
This is also a country that turned down 15B USD to open their southern border for the US to have a second front in the Iraq War. | Russia and Turkey have good relations, but they are far from allies - it wasn't long ago that Turkey shot down a Russian fighter, and Russia called Turkey a bunch of terrorists and slapped sanctions on them. | 0 |
The irony is getting a little warmer might make Russia a bit more liveable. Putin will not live to see it. | Russians KNOW full well what is going on. They can watch it in real time. And they are celebrating it. They are proud of atrocities they committing. They want to commit more. They are proud that "Russia is expanding". They want to expand it more. They are proud they are genociding Ukrainians. | 1 |
Aren't there laws that make it where criminals can't remain in office? They can run while in jail and things I know, but there are some laws that restrict activity of those in office. | So, tradition and morals are the only things stopping it from being abused how it currently is then. Got it. I really do keep forgetting that the "norms" are the only thing keeping people like him from exploiting this country for every penny and for power. Trump has shown us that our safeguards don't mean anything if p... | 0 |
So trains block to road next to my business about 30% of the time. Sometimes they will park their trains there for literally 3-4 days. I've called the local sheriff, and there is literally nothing that they can do due to the law being repealed. | TLDR - in Ohio, it's 100% legal for Norfolk Southern to block roads with their trains for as long as they want, thanks to having bought off politicians, having a previous law repealed. | 0 |
Like massively purging people off of the voter polls. Like an asshole who is too scared to really let the people vote. Bunch of crybabies who can't actually let people vote for what they want. Teachers deserve a raise. Teachers also deserve a shit ton more. Everyone does. | I guess that's the difference between us? I'm not cool if we do it, but you're cool if you all do it? You're cool with electing people to subvert the will of the people? | 0 |
On one hand these are old technology & will have no impact on Russian air capabilities, on the other hand giving Ukraine these defensive weapons will have "unimaginable results." If they won't be effective why would Russia escalate a war with the United States. I'm betting the systems are old tech & more than capable o... | If enough countries tell Russia to GTFO of Ukraine, it may eventually help tip the scales. To receive the messages, Russia has to be there. | 1 |
I grew up Catholic so it takes a lot to shock me, but I never had a priest bring up masturbation in the confessional. Utah Mormonism in particular is on a whole 'nother level of sex cult craziness. | Utah contains some of the most majestic scenery on Earth and enough troubled Mormons to keep me away. (From a someone who grew up there and who would love to return in different circumstances.). | 1 |
On the positive side a meh tank is better than no tank and the Leopard 1A5, which is what has been stated will be sent, is equipped with dated but still effective thermal sights which will more than useful in Ukraine. How you use the tank is generally more important than stats on paper and the Russian's often terrible ... | They are equal to the soviet T-72, the most common tank on the battlefield, a modern tank will destroy it but it can easily destroy old tanks, lighter vehicles, fortifications etc. | 1 |
As a Ukrainian Jew, whose grandpa fought through the end of WW2, and whose two great-grandpas perished fighting in the same war against Nazis, I can't emphasize enough how false this statement is. | I don't mean to excuse what they did -- but it isn't like resisting the Nazis to side with the Soviets was going to seem like a great idea either to many of them. | 1 |
Which means more innocent people in Mexico & elsewhere will be brutally murdered for the money machine. | The demand for drugs in America’s going one direction, and it ain’t down. Between Pharma companies, higher costs of living, narcissstic materialist culture and corporate/political fuckery….yeah, people here are gonna use drugs to deal with this shit. | 0 |
Deportations decreased significantly during the Trump presidency while illegal immigration increased significantly. He was just so incompetent and ineffectual he made illegal immigration significantly worse. | He blew the entire budget on stupid ineffectual shit like the wall and unnecessary (and expensive) detainments. | 0 |
That’s because Dems lost the senate and McConnell was obstructing. The senate will continue supporting Biden but we’re likely losing the house so there’s a lot less Biden will be able to do anyway. It has nothing to do with if Biden runs or not. | There might be a slim chance Biden can pull that off this term. This election showed that Americans don’t want extreme right-wing politics, they want centrist politics. Lastly, don’t associate the actions of rogue citizens who believe in extremism with those who sit in congress. Most DC republicans don’t stand for any ... | 1 |
And it puts Israel in a light that makes Israel ignore them entirely, and validates Palestinian propaganda that's extremely unhelpful to any sort of lasting solution. | There is a clear bias against Israel but it isn't due to any particular hatred, just fifty years of pent up annoyance and ire stemming from a conflict that will not end and the only party of that conflict in the UN technically, is Israel. So it has become modus operandi to just condem them over and over and over again.... | 1 |
I doubt a major war will suddenly kick off, but likely a series of regional conflicts will coalesce into a singular war will happen within the next decade. | None of those are likely to expand into a larger war. Russia has expended far too much of their military already. They can't afford to open new fronts. | 1 |
This election is an encouraging sign for Wisconsin’s election maps. It also shows that abortion isn’t going anywhere, no matter how much the GOP just want to wish it away. | She had no solid messaging other than “I put Darrell Brooks behind bars.” At one point during a “debate” between candidates (it wasn’t a debate-debate, more of a symposium), she was reading answers out of a binder. Zero charisma or personality as a candidate. She did well in Waukesha/Ozaukee/Washinon counties, that was... | 0 |
Yeah, totally support Ukraine's need to defend themselves but conscription is fucked up. I never got why militaries wanted a bunch of people who didn't believe in the cause and weren't willing to die anyways. | I don't see that as a justification for seizing people and forcing them to fight or be killed against their will. | 1 |
I'm not saying that solar panels stop the libs from turning america into a communist country, but ever since solar panels were invented the Soviet Union collapsed and the US is still capitalist. | But in 30 years the solar panels will need replacement anyway. You can get solar panels now, reap the benefits now, then replace them in 30 years with the money you save from the solar panels now to save even more money. | 0 |
it's not an EO, it's using executive authority as granted by the HEROES act that allows the Secretary of Education to waive debt during wars or national emregencies (like global pandemics). | No it isn't. Piecemeal cancelling and then stopping the process for groundless judicial stays is not "cancelling it outright." If Trump's judges are illegitimate so are their rulings. | 0 |
Missile tests aren't threats, and the US has a long history of testing ICBMs like that, and making threats. North Korea isn't uniquely dangerous. Small countries rely on asymmetric warfare, and North Korea is surrounded by five of the world's largest militaries; the missile program is a deterrent, a paper tiger. They c... | Maybe not for that reason, but yes. It would have the same added value that lead the US to position short range ballistic missiles and nuclear weapons systems in East Europe and Turkey when the Workers' Republics became a threat to US hegemony. A bit Dr. Strangelove imo. | 0 |
They can continue the civilian targeting with drones and cruise missiles as long as they can maintain the stock, but that's not going to win them the war and its not going to bring down Ukraine. | Ukraine isn’t a static entity either as seen in how quickly they’ve progressed technologically with their long range and drone weapons. Don’t confuse justice and mercy for inability. | 1 |
Cubanos are not some magical special Latinos that are automatically pre-disposed to vote Republican. This is a result of a long period of incompetence of Floridian Democrats in particular. | Cuban Americans were swinging for Obama as late as 2012. I don't feel like this is anything more than demonizing Cubans. | 0 |
So them stating this didn't came out of the blue, it's just something to remind the West/Allied Nations. | Their inability to do so was made clear in March, but that doesn't mean they aren't too dumb to try with any non-NATO country. Ukraine is certainly the bastion against Russian expansion in the long term. | 1 |
Also on another note the russian state promotes and enables their athletes to use doping in all international competitions... | How is making it easier for Russian athletes to represent countries other than Russia pandering to Russia. It does the opposite. Unless your a reddit neckbeard who thinks Russian athletes are personally responsible for the invasion of ukraine. | 1 |
A Ukrainian soldier once remarked they'd fight with sticks and stones if they must, but it seems Russians are racing to get there first. | Considering the power imbalance between Ukraine and Russia, I can understand the hyperbole. But if I was going to be more specific, I'd say the Russian state terrorists are more caught and being slowly ground. | 0 |
Is it possible that a contingent of House Republicans refuse to vote for whoever the GOP Speaker candidate is and Democrats could push through one of their own? | I’m saying if there are even like 3 or 4 republicans who decide to not cast a vote for whoever the compromise GOP speaker candidate is, Dems could just vote in a minority Speaker. | 0 |
Putin's trying to save face. He fucked up, underestimating Ukraine and rather than look weak by pulling out, he's going to keep pushing even if it drags all of Russia down with him. | Maybe it isn't, and we should still support Ukraine fully.. but increasingly it's feeling like just another fake-out by Russia, in a long long long javelin-destroyed caravan of lies. | 1 |
On a less direct note, that softly implied that Ukraine should consider forfeiting its territories to Putin. | Would have been more genuine if he didn't parrot russian propaganda during the first months of the invasion and put the blame on Ukraine. This is little more than a PR stunt. | 0 |
This isn't really about AKs and the article is adding that bit in. This is just a change from handgun to firearm. So a folding single shot shotgun in a backpack is now legal (good for transporting). It also would cover a shotgun in a car, which can be considered concealed in some places. I think the more likely thing i... | How can you not comprehend the difference between someone carrying a holstered weapon and someone pointing one at someone? they dont look anything alike. | 1 |
I'm not saying he hasn't done good as well, just that Democrats have become a very pro-corporate party and it's disappointing. | Young voters are big part of the reason there wasn't a red wave, and Biden doesn't really inspire them. Younger voters had a big impact on the midterms, and that's despite still having a relatively low turnout. If you could find a good, younger candidate they could relate to, that could easily make up for any incumbent... | 0 |
A new disease at that spread rate would’ve been detected in the west by now in all likelihood… because people would have similar symptoms, no Covid 19, and then theyd discover a novel virus, so far not the case so no reason to think it is. | 2) Infecting hundreds of millions of people is going to give the virus a chance to generate hundreds of new variants, one or more of which could spread more easily and/or be more lethal than present variants. | 1 |
So what country is it going to be to help them out? Probably the US, Canada, or even France I'm guessing. | Haiti has been out of control for quite awhile now "decades," but recently it's worse than just uncontrollable pure madness and chaos. | 0 |
Its not that they're destroying anything (so far), it's that they're being insufferable ass-clowns and making people think climate activists are a bunch of fucking vandalizing morons who are doing this for attention to themselves, rather than attention to the issue they claim to care about. | This is low-effort, low-stakes tomfuckery which, to be fair, does get attention but it only makes climate change activists look like overpriviledged fuckwits with too much time on their hands and not enough drive to do something actually meaningful. | 1 |
Interestingly enough my husband pretty much never gets sick, not even a head cold, and all through the "dark days of covid" he was the one that went out and did all our shopping and such. Yet this hit him REALLY hard, to the point that I was actually worried about him for the first time in nearly 30 years together. | Pretty sure husband and I had it just before christmas, and it was absolutely horrible. We are both vaccinated with all available boosters and I have a flu shot. | 0 |
Just my two cents, but I think you’re wrong there. If you go back in the closet, how will they target you? Try to think of it from the perspective of a heartless, conniving shitbag. It’s not that the top shitbags super duper care about hurting you, it’s just that language about hurting you really energizes their base a... | This rhetoric from the dumbasses being spread here is one of the reasons the debate has gotten to this point. You say something absurd like “if you don’t like LGBT then you clearly support the mass shooters” removes any credibility you had. | 1 |
Russia has lost half of its armor, and massive amounts of manpower, while Ukraine gains more daily. In the long term, Russia never had the resources to win, and at this point, even if they managed to get to Keiv, they don't have the power to hold it long term with the rest of the world supporting Ukraine. | That’s not to say Russia can’t win at all either, nor are they harmless to Ukrainians, but to say that Ukraine cannot win is downright wrong. | 1 |
Edit: But I see the hole here. Yes, it should be amended to not allowing an automatic approval if the governing party of the Senate is the same as the president. | The only remedy is Impeachment/Removal, which is a political process, and only has a chance of happening if there is strong public support for it. | 1 |
I’m American born and raised. To be specific, Asian American. To be even more specific, Vietnamese ethnicity. But as American as it gets. I was raised by parents who fled Vietnam after the war, as like tens of millions of others had. They didn’t flee anything scandalous, no. They fled communism. You can imagine how I w... | They’re banking on a dream that doesn’t work, has proven to not work, but they’re banking on the theory alone. It was ignorant of me to come all up in there to think I could debate them. Just as you did over on that sub. | 0 |
I think the key is DeSantis _bragging_… unless someone asked him to prove it and he then did I don’t how he could possibly know that in reality. Last time this whole “exodus from liberal state to conservative state” was brought up it was later determined that the flow was absolutely no different from any other year reg... | Seems a good issue to rustle up significantly more people to not vote for him. DeSantis needs SOME independents and democrats to vote for him. This isn’t a great way to do that. People keep saying he’s smart and yet this is a seemingly incredibly dumb political move at the national level. Republicans need to be bland e... | 0 |
ELI5: Isn't a regular grand jury empaneled only for indictments just a special grand jury with extra steps? What restricted the special grand jury from making indictments? Why would they need a whole new and separate group of people to decide on indictments, who weren't part of the investigative jury? | The special grand jury, however, cannot issue indictments. They can only offer recommendations and write a final report. | 1 |
It would explain why we have Ukraine light tanks that excel in mobility and have anti tank ability. The tow systems and radar will give Ukraine the advantage when on the defensive. | Probably showed up with satellite data of Russia's next invasion attempt after mobilizing the 300k troops. Russia has actually decided to train these troops in some form. They probably will try to invade again with this new troops in March. | 0 |
Unclear whether this is true. I'd probably take her over a Republican unless 2024 goes extremely well for Democrats and her vote is unneeded. But incumbency does have huge advantages, so ceding the seat to a Republican is probably a bad idea. It might be better to bide their time and then oust her in 2030, rather than ... | This move will definitely cost us the Senate in 2024 but I think it's better to let a republican get in for six years than to cave to simena's disgusting tactics. | 1 |
This is right out of the democrat playbook: Complain about something using faulty logic, pass a bill that does nothing that would even fix said complaint in the first place, allocate absurdly large amounts of taxpayer money, and then blatantly steal it all in front of the American public. Then blame the other side for ... | Seriously - tell me how on EARTH can you blame the previous republican governor who spent $6 million putting up a wall for the $95 million of taxpayer money that democrats just stole? | 0 |
What part of Hitler's core belief that blue-eyed blond Christian men are superior to everyone else and you will be rounded up, jailed, exterminated for any deviance such as being non-christian, homosexual, of a differing race etc. can even remotely be attributed to Biden? | Sounds more like GOP white conservative Christians unless you support doublespeak (1984) deliberately obscuring, disguising, distorting, or reversing the meaning of words as Trump and DeSantis are prone to do. | 0 |
I hope no one would read this and take it as Barbados being LGBT friendly. This is like the lowest bar possible for LGBT rights (not to detract from it being great progress). A country decriminalizing gay sex means just yesterday they threw you in jail for it, and culture doesn't change overnight like laws do. | Yeah this was a judicial decision rather than a legislative one, so there's still a lot of societal changes to happen before the LGBT community can feel safe in the country. | 1 |
Idk why but I’m imagining how daft it would be for the Russian gov to arrest Russians for paying any sort of reverence or attention to Ukrainians such as Khrushchev or Brezhnev, or idk a Georgian like Stalin? Is that anti-Russian? | I just think that Russians call anyone Nazis (namely fascists) they don’t like. Especially, those who said something bad about Russia. Ultimately, they justify to themselves why they are hating and killing people. | 1 |
Nukes certainly prevented a war between Russia and other major players with nukes, which would've been more deadly. | If they didn't have Nukes then all of the countries supplying Ukraine with weapons to defend itself probably wouldn't have to add the stipulation of not attacking Russia back with said weapons. | 1 |
It is a common conservative talking point to conflate criticism of Israel with criticism of Judaism as a whole, because that way they can paint opponents of Israel as antisemitic. | It was more the tweet that Israel had "hypnotized the world" that trafficked in antisemitic tropes of secret world domination, than the "all about the Benjamins" tweet. | 1 |
"They will fight with everything they have, because that's what they see you as trying to take from them so they've got nothing to lose.". | You seem to be under the impression that incremental progression is possible in a place like iran. These people are literally arresting, killing, and blackmailing people and their families just for speaking out against a head scarf. a good start is sending the theocracy out of the country, like they did to the shah 40 ... | 0 |
People need to lose this delusion that Ukraine is somehow in control of this war and on a winning path. Russia fully plans on taking as long as it takes. And they're getting supplied by Iran and North Korea. They're building out new weaponry plants. And don't be surprised if in a year China starts supplying them. And t... | He's pushing so hard on taking Ukraine because he knows his grip on power is reliant on delivering, as failure is weakness and weakness is unacceptable. | 1 |
This World Cup is probably gonna be immortalized as it’s the last of the two goats and if Argentina actually wins this year, probably gonna be one of the most famous world cups ever. The World Cup is projected to be watched by 5 billion people. People are definitely excited. | At the end of the day, people don’t really care about this shit otherwise Fifa would’ve died years ago. No cares if it’s corrupt as long as they provide entertainment to fans. | 0 |
Because the voters once again refused to empower Biden and his breed of mainstream Dems with the sort of majorities they'd need to actually get their ambitious agenda done. | Biden is basically where the average Democrat voter is politically, so stop calling a majority of Dem voters “corporate” or you’ll continue to lose primary races. | 1 |
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