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This quote from Cheney's spokesperson leads me to believe that this isn't an instance of them trying to streamline the report or whatever else, but is instead Cheney attempting to not make certain groups look bad. | Hmmm… you mean Cheney, an Anti-Trump GOPer, might be trying to avoid investigating things that would make the non-Trump members of her party and their supporters look bad? | 1 |
edit: I will say in the spirit of fairness, disapproving of him doesn't mean that these people disapprove enough to vote for a Democrat or stay home and not vote. | It's good people like yourself make the choice to change, but they need to stop pretending that somehow the Republican party of 2012 is any different from the Republican party of 2022. The only difference is how outwardly vocal the party is now. Still though you can't just say I voted Republican then and now I don't just to justify your poor thinking and decision making of the past by saying,"well back then the party wasn't like it is now". Frankly, yes it was, and if the Republican party wasn't universally hated now because of how outwardly disgusting they are, you would essentially vote for them. | 1 |
I’ve got no real issue with 16-17 year olds hunting by themselves. Sometimes, in rural places, it’s a necessary food source and parents have jobs. A 14-15 year old with an a ar15 is a whole different thing. Unfortunately there isn’t really a legal distinction between the two. That is the dumb part. | This article makes is seem as though police officers would be powerless to do anything about a child openly carrying a rifle. Would it not still fall within the scope of reasonable suspicion for any officer to stop and question a child with a rifle? At the very least it is reasonable to suspect that one of two things could be amiss. Either a crime has just been committed in the area, or the rifle is stolen, since children can’t buy rifles. It would be perfectly reasonable then for the police officer to call the child’s parents. If any person is going to walk around with a rifle they should be prepared to answer a few questions if stopped by the police. Including, who are you? Where are you coming from? Where are you going? And why do you have a rifle? | 0 |
That's funny because it's the same argument that nefarious actors made for these regions of Ukraine that Russia invaded in 2014 or has been encroaching on and pumping propaganda into for years. | So I see stuff about Ukraine doing some fucked up shit coming out of the Russian camp, and have no real way to combat it since every other source I see is so blatantly pro-Ukraine that I can't call it "Unbiased". | 1 |
I only had to hang outside corner stores trying to convince adults to buy smokes for me for about 5 or 6 years before I turned 18. I have a hunch that public sentiment has shifted enough by now that it's even more difficult to convince someone these days. If I had to do that every time I wanted to buy a pack, for literally the rest of my life, I probably would've quit by now. | For what it's worth, I'm a 40yo, 25+ year heavy smoker (weed and cigarettes) who's lived my whole life in CA. I've been at 2+ packs and about an 1/8-1/4 oz per-day consistently for more than 15 years. When I saw New Zealand pioneering this idea I thought it was fucking brilliant. | 0 |
There's a reason Egypt and Jordan refused the lands Israel offered, and it isn't because the Palestinians are a pleasant people. | Israel occupying Palestine is not, in of itself, justification for what HAMAS is doing. Especially when you consider why Israel is occupying them. Hence why this is not a black and white conflict, but very gray. | 1 |
At an airshow I was at many years ago, regular old joes had 30+ cars go up in flames because one flamed out and caught the others parked nearby. | rental lot returns are parked very VERY close. This was a problem in southwest florida international's car fire that caught from car to car consuming thousands of cars a few years back. | 0 |
That is not evidence of intent to commit a crime. That is intent to vote. If she intended to commit a crime, such as with these other assholes, that would be worthy of punishment. | What these examples actually show is that when would-be criminals try to cheat, the existing system is strong enough to catch and prosecute them. This doesn’t prove the need for new voter-suppression laws; it helps prove the opposite. | 1 |
Also, remember the majority of younger voters refuse to vote. They understand politics like the boomers understand tech...but the boomers at least get something for their ignorance....re-elected. | Boomers show up, and vote for their ideologies, and people their age. Change needs to come from the younger generation. it doesn't happen magically. Only 27% of voters 18-29 showed up. That's 73% that didn't. If you want to point fingers, start with the 18-29 year olds that refuse to vote. The younger voters could push these dinosaurs out of office. They don't. twitter burns, and complaining aren't action. | 0 |
We'll have to wait until the investigation is complete to determine whether the documents were misplaced due to stupidity on Biden's part. Typically Presidents and VPs do not do their own document preparation and disposal, they trust that their staff is trained to follow proper protocols. It's highly unlikely that Biden's intelligence factors into the document mishandling in any way. | Claiming that Biden is unaware of classified documents at his home is either extremely naive or extremely concerning. If Biden is, in fact, unaware that he has classified documents at his home as that user is claiming, yes, indeed that is factually a terrifying prospect and worse than what Donald Trump is accused of doing. Donald Trump is accused of being cavalier with classified documents of which he was aware. Being unaware you are in possession of classified documents is much more worrisome because it invites the possibility you don’t know where some of those records may be, or in whose possession. This is not debatable and to suggest the possibility is ridiculous as you are is asinine. | 1 |
Cant wait to see the crybabies on Russia TV say its unfair when Ukrainians start to fly the 1000km+ Drones all over Russia to take out energy infrastructure and military equipment. | Wait i heard Ukraine had over hundred S-300 systems at the start of the war (and didn't lost significant amount either), does Russia really has less than UA? | 1 |
yeah, I was just reading up on it. Apparently the accepted term is "sore loser laws" and most states have some flavor of them at this point with variations. With that in mind, he might have to settle for trying to tear down the winning candidate as much as possible. He's got enough die hards remaining to cause a bit of a GOP civil war. Though I will say that these last few months, and especially after the midterms, I find myself wondering if his influence is just going to continue to evaporate. This poll certainly adds weight to that side of the scale. | I think that a 2024 campaign would be a sad desaturated echo of his 2016 showing, but I can almost guarantee he's going to try even if just to try to fend off being charged for everything that's currently brewing. Right now he no longer has the power of the executive branch to shield himself, and until now he's been able to count on the Republican establishment to a degree, but it seems that's going away. His options are narrowing and the only way they widen again is to revive his political career and get some power back. | 0 |
What terrifies me at that point is the prospect for state government endorsed violence against communities that typically vote Democrat. When the state isn't accountable to a group, they tend to brutalize them with impunity. | And they'll have the legal mechanism to do it once Moore v. Harper is ruled on, and ISL theory becomes law of the land. | 0 |
India is the 3rd largest renewable energy producer. Also check how many nuclear reactors are being built. Some nations just talk. India is walking the talk. | India should look in a mirror when speaking. Let them take the lead and show the world how its done. | 1 |
It's the internet, usually lowest common denominator gets upvoted fast. Repeating a joke means there's not even an attempt at trying to be funny or clever because you are guaranteed "success" and people crave attention. | There's literally no point in trying to argue against it and, honestly, arguing against it can be as nonsensical as the thing you are complaining about. | 0 |
The Netherlands shouldn't (and wouldn't) wait for Russia to get to the Dutch border before joining the fight. As part of NATO we have a responsibility to our allies to defend their borders if it comes to it. And an effective defense would require tanks. | That's fair. But during the cold war the Netherlands fielded around a thousand tanks. Of course cold war tanks and modern tanks are a different beast, but it still seems like we should have sufficient scale to field an efficient tank force. | 0 |
Your point here contradicts your assertion that you have to see Lulas plans in order for him to accomplish his goals... | Lula wasn't perfect in his first two mandates. Regarding environment, deforestation was low but it still happened so they had every right to complain. Now we are in different times, not only Bolsonaro was way worse, but also Lula is showing to be even more open to address environmental issues. | 1 |
True except conservatives believe blocking a road in protest forfeits your right to life. Considering their opinions on guns I doubt age would stop them. | In highschool I participated in a 15 min walk out/ moment of silence for a school shooting that happened near me not only did the principal tell us we were all suspended, many students, teachers and administrators told us we were wasting our time. One kid even said he would kill us all if his guns got taken away. | 0 |
Doesn't matter if it's true or not, it is a failure of the system either way. It just changes which part of the system we blame. Either the Prosecutor was incompetent, the police were negligent or the grandfather conspired to cover it all up. | The one thing that changes is that if the grandfather conspired to cover it up, he should be sharing a cell with his piece of shit grandson. | 0 |
That guy bought an induction cook top worth almost 20k. You're not comparing apples to apples. a 1k gas cook top is way more affordable than an induction that can achieve similar results. | Regarding control the Chefs say otherwise and love how efficient it is because it heats much faster than gas. I'm not here to debate though. Your opinion differs from the vast majority of the ones I have heard coming from chefs. | 1 |
Biden was always going to run for a second term, and as far as I know he has never said otherwise. The most he's done is not publicly commit. I personally think this was a strategy to manage an overheated media. | From what I can see, Biden's already either a) shown he gets more votes than those candidates by defeating them in the 2020 primary, or b) they have already said they're not running in 2024. | 0 |
Mr. Shakir forgets that Biden's win in SC primary was reflected in Biden's win in GA which ended up giving the Presidency and the Senate to Democrats. | The flaw that dooms Mr. Shakirs's complaint is we are talking about a subset of voters in SC, Democratic voters, 23% of voters in SC and that subset is 60% Black voters. | 0 |
Thank you. The efficacy of the previous President's disposition is currently being discussed and deliberated in Congress. Any actions the President took, that were not explicitly forbidden by Congress are legal acts, due to the unorthodox nature of the job of President. | There shouldn't be a limitation on age after the minimum age requirement is met. There is a clear chain of succession as to who gets to be President if the President dies in office. The President should receive frequent checkups by military physicians in regards to competency, and health. That should be enough to trust the President is sound enough to do their job. | 0 |
I read a book, sorry can't remember the name of it, were rebels tried to fight a global nation/corporation amalgam and their last holdouts were in some kind of jungle. The Nation/Corp. had huge, slow but mobile fortesses with Sci-Fi lasers that basically burned a few miles of the jungle every time they fired and adwanced to surround the remaining jungle, while buring it down at the same time. | They were described as only a little larger than a humming bird but would attack in the hundreds on one target and if they found a large group of targets were able to call for more drones. | 0 |
no offense but I would trust WHO over some Indian pharma companies…the Indian officials are equally likely to protecting their financial interests by denying the claims…interesting they don’t say none of the compounds were found in the medicine, they just say the medicines complied with specifications…. | The firm producing the syrup is not really very important to indian Pharma industry but WHO itself contradicts in its own report that all medicines have complied with safety limits of WHO. While i hate the fact this conversation includes the death of kids but WHO needs to clarify how has it put the blame on medicine. Indian officials in health ministry are asking WHO to submit investigation report which WHO is not doing. | 1 |
Jeffries is a supporter of M4A which the progressives never "force the vote" on because it would get crushed and set them back a decade, but sure the progressive caucus guy who got every vote from the squad only got it because there's obviously a difference between debating policy and the speaker vote. | Jeffries got every Dem vote in every round of voting, so what “major inroads” does he need to make with progressives when even the squad fell in line? | 0 |
The laptop was gave to ghoulini. Who Is currently being sued for billions of dollars in connection to his other lies around the election. On top of the criminal investigation of his involvement with the fake electors fraud and his fraud guaranteed company and his American first campaign finance crimes with lev parnes. | Pretty much wasting everyone’s time and money, just so republicans have another fake controversy to get worked up for. Pretty much anyone pushing this bullshit all is a pretty terrible person. | 0 |
Particularly 2018 Florida (sooo close) and 2020 Maine (wtf Susan Collins??). Those should have been Dem wins. | I do wish we could’ve gotten rid of the filibuster for voting rights & tbh rebalancing the Supreme Court because of stolen seats. But we needed to win more seats in order to pull that off. | 0 |
What is modern day Tamil Nadu and Kerala was never part of the Mughal empire - either as territory or as vassals. They were only conquered twice by outside forces in their history - by Malik Kafur in the 13th century and by the British. | Extremely ignorant comment. The Mughals were not even the first muslim empire. Northern India and present day Pakistan were under muslim rule for over 300 years before Babur. | 0 |
What do you think NATO would've done if it indeed was the case that Russia launched missiles that hit Poland? Do you think NATO would just start dropping nukes? | That doesn't make sense, so Polish and Ukrainian governments would be in on it? Why wouldn't it be easier then just to say Russia hit Poland with their missiles but they're not going to escalate the situation further? | 0 |
For the record, although I'm optimistic this will happen, and it absolutely would in a perfect world, we don't live in a perfect world. Unless you're Reagan in 1984, no race is boring enough to be worth ignoring or slacking off on. (That is how we got President Trump!). | But things change. We've seen the midterms -- and that taking Biden's approval ratings into account. Trumpism and extreme election denialism are simply that unpalatable, perhaps independent of any other policy. | 0 |
It worked when you could take a proven, loyal Republican politician, have them (almost certainly him) act like the biggest piece of shit in the room to galvanize the worst of their electorate and then play the standard republican playbook in a general election. | That no longer works -- because now those Loyalist operators are losing their primaries to genuinely crazy scumbags who are genuinely the worst people in the room. These people then refuse to read off the Republican script in the general - and while they delight the scummiest portions of the Republican electorate, they fail to perform in a general election. | 0 |
Christmas is just a stolen pagan holiday, which is why it's in December and has nothing to do with Jesus' birth. A lot of people will say that they made a Jesus version of the pagan party to be more inclusive, but the opposite is true. The Church (as an arm of political power) was pressured into a December 25th celebration because people were abandoning the church as it was forbidden to celebrate the pagan holiday even though it was so popular. | My understanding is that using December 25 was Christian’s appropriating a pagan celebration (I wanna say winter solstice) to make it more enticing for pagans to join in. | 1 |
Rather, you should try to think about what your enemies could do - could China launch an invasion of Taiwan even though they are not by any means prepared? They sure could. | They just about can. They've made a priority of increasing production of staple crops in recent years. On The Economist's they rank 25th in the world (the United States is 13th). Russia would be more than happy to help make up any potential shortfall. | 1 |
The Iron Dome currently protects a tiny country against primitive rockets. Creating a system that can protect a country as big as Ukraine from modern, sophisticated missiles and drones is a much more difficult and expensive task. | 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. | 1 |
If you're thinking this is a gotcha, liberals don't tend to view political parties like football teams, and are generally quite comfortable with a realistic view of individual politicians and the democratic party as a whole. No one is claiming democrats are perfect - just that republican leadership is a steaming pile of bigoted, self-serving dogshit. | Edit: seems I'm getting down voted, likely by republicans who don't like criticism of republicans. However, this comment goes for both Democrats and Republicans who would vote for "their" party regardless of how bad it is. | 1 |
Lol. Qatar spent billions on this so they could become more visible on the world stage and I went from knowing very little about Qatar to hating it with every fiber of my being. | Difference here is that Qatar has deep pockets and fifa is more than willing to whore out the sport, its fans and what minimal amount of integrity fifa had left for that money. | 1 |
Well do I have news for your! You don't have to wait for the election cycle since I've already seen it in this thread and others on this sub. | Primaries are important, but when it comes to "The guy who tried a fucking coup" and "the guy that's milquetoast centrist skewing slightly right, I'm voting against the coup people. | 0 |
That's still the same, they do stop them sometimes. Maybe people just need to stop shooting places up and then people not even from the US wouldn't want to change rights that don't affect them? | Not trying to say guns should be allowed, just pointing out an incompetent, racist, ultraviolent police isn't exclusive to the US. | 1 |
If they want to filibuster that’s fine, make them stand there and read Dr. Seuss and actually be in any way accountable. It’s absurd that they just decided to completely break the Senate because they were lazy, and now they stick to it because “if we eliminate the filibuster rule it’ll come back to bite us when the GOP is in the majority.”. | Get rid of the filibuster, gerrymandering, and make voter suppression of "eligible voters" a mandatory 5 year penalty and Republicans will never win another election. Their edge is manipulation of the vote after manipulation of their stupid ass followers. | 1 |
The real issue is gas stoves and ovens that need to be cleaned and homes with bad ventilation. Usually older homes. Your kitchen hood over your stove should be on venting to the outside. | Gas stoves are everywhere, the older an area the more common they are. The last apartments I've had in Boston were gas, I think one unit maybe doesn't? They've often been a selling point for people who like to cook as heat control can be a lot better than the older electrics, tossing a wok on the electrics isn't easy and you don't have to worry about whether your own will work. The ovens often get hotter, with the downside that they have to vent so heat up the kitchen much more. | 1 |
The problem with these people is they ignore the very real threat they put into office. Like, for example the last orange clown that would have gladly been a dictator if he could have and the very real threat that this next guy, Desantis, probably wants to make this a theocracy based on everything he does and says at least. | I just don't have confidence that Biden can beat Desantis. I hope he does, that would be great for a GOP rising star to be ousted by great grandpa, but I worry the surface level narrative of "He's too old..." will hurt Biden unless he's going up against another old person, like Trump. | 0 |
I mean, they likely are, it's just not public. But now that they public is aware of it, private citizens are tracking. | There's probably little risk because most major assets aren't visible openly, and those that are can be seen on any number of sources anyway. | 0 |
And then what? Pilots quit, and/or wildcat strike anyway, and the airlines do what? Make the C-suite execs try and fly the planes? You can't effectively scab the entirety of high-skill and high-experience jobs like "large passenger plane pilot.". | Yeah. When I worked in Holland for a while, I was floored with how much EU residents get. Even the lowly service and retail workers. I sent some guy home one day because he was being an ass, and my boss asked why. I told him, and he said, "No, don't do that, he still gets paid, even if he's not here." Top that with sick pay and vacation pay, and somehow, things still run fine and I guess it's profitable since companies stay in business. | 1 |
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? | I'm talking about the last election where Kemp was Secretary of State. Abrams conceded this race, I don't doubt it. But if you have to be on the side that can only win by gerrymandering and voter suppression, you don't get to be on the high horse. | 0 |
Or not? Like, rockets are huge on the launchpad because you need a large amount of thrust to punch through the atmosphere. Then by the time the payload's in orbit it's tiny. Maybe the first time an alien sends a probe or other vessel this way they aren't thinking it should be wrapped in megatons of armour just in case of missile attack. | It also helps to get people to stop thinking that every weird sensor reading is an alien spaceship, since literally none of them have ever been alien spaceships. | 1 |
"Codifying Roe" directly says: nuh-uh, the feds can swoop in and be in charge of that stuff, actually. | That is the type of law that directly "codifying" Roe would be. That is the federalism problem it presents. | 0 |
Ah not quite sadly. Their frigates and subs are actually solid. Russia never really invested money into aircraft carriers like the US did. Different strokes for different folks. | Yeah but that is also the point of MAD. Realistically the only navy with aircraft carriers Russia would ever face off against is a NATO country and realistically any war in Europe would be land based. Russias military was not designed for naval force projection in conventional warfare on the seas or in a bid to launch carrier operations making strikes on the US mainland. | 0 |
Literally had to pause the video to laugh out loud for a few minutes when he said "...like dinner with me - I dunno if that's an amazing prize but it's what we've have.". | They. Arent. Even. NFT's. The site explicitly says there is no limit to how many will be sold and they are for entertainment and not investing. They are literally nothing. You're paying Trump for the privilege of paying Trump. That is it. | 1 |
In other words, livestock and poultry are great at making it easier for viruses to spread amongst humans. As to why this is, one author explains: | It is likely that animal agriculture enabled the 1957 Asian Flu, 1968 Hong Kong Flu, bird flu, and the 2009 swine flu. Of these, bird flu is the cause for most concern. In past outbreaks, the case-fatality (CF) rate in humans was 60 percent, although one study suggests that if it became a larger pandemic, it would have a median CF rate of approximately 23.5 percent. It is thought that the 1918 Spanish Flu may have infected one-third of the global population and had a CF rate of 2.5 percent. If bird flu were to mutate in such a way that it was anywhere near as contagious as Spanish Flu, with a CF rate almost 10 times higher than Spanish Flu, the results would be apocalyptic. As two authors wrote in a WHO publication: | 0 |
It's not quite as stupid as that but then it becomes much more stupid than that. The reason they're asking for money now is because they're ending their free streaming which DirecTV says invalidates any claims that it's DirecTV that's reducing accessability to Newsmax content. | Right now, DirectTV pays $0 to Newsmax, but DirectTV also does not require any advertising time and lets Newsmax offer its streaming services as well. | 1 |
A lot of people think genocide requires mass murder, which is why I use the Lamkin quote. Genocide is the death of a culture of people, either through mass murder or serious injury, infantacide or sterilisation, removal of children or through deliberate hardship or difficult living conditions. | Just making the VERY obvious point that children dying of diseases (that were killing children of all races) is different than concentration camp style mass genocidal graves. | 1 |
That ignores the difficulty of building the wall in the first place. In order to get construction equipment and materials to the spots where the wall is being constructed, roads (even if temporary) need to be built. These roads, and even some of the property that the wall will be built on will need to have land seized from private owners by the Government. Much of the terrain is also very rough with mountains, canyons, etc., in the patch of construction. | There are plenty of reasons to oppose a massive border wall even if you are in favor of stricter border and immigration enforcement. | 0 |
It was extremely effective in 2012 (based on the 2010 Census and the gerrymandering done from that), and got republicans a 33 seat lead even though democrats received 1 million more votes overall than republicans did. | Reminder: gerrymandering is a fundamental Republican platform, called Project Redmap, where Republican Party paid 30 million dollar to gerrymander in 2010 to elect republicans no matter what the vote was. | 1 |
Those were accepted because they were beneficial for the U.S. indeed when they tried to keep their Emperor in their first attempts to surrender those pleas were rejected. Surrender happened first, then the U.S. decided what Japan could have. Many documents were seized as a result of Japan losing. They weren't really a token Japan could throw in for favorable terms. | Edit: if you want to downvote can you at least try to prove me wrong? I don't care about votes but my counter was objective fact. | 0 |
Like I said, Modi started refusing it because he cares more about telling his voters that India is "an emerging superpower" than children starving. | What's really fucked up is Modi started rejecting it out of principle despite almost half the children in India not having food security. | 0 |
Maybe this is a hot take but I think we should probably stop genocidal action before the killings start. | Would you hold this same opinion in Germany in 1933, before the camps opened? The nazis didn't go from zero to gas chambers in one day, they started by fomenting a climate of hate toward Jewish people and depersoned them publicly. The fucking Texas governor asked for a list. We are not far off from pink triangles. If a Jewish person back then told you "hey things are getting spicy 'round here" would you tell them they're overreacting? | 0 |
Russian is known to assassinate guys like him in foreign countries. Being the first guy to produce evidence of war crimes is a brave thing to do seeing as no one else is doing it. | Umm he has evidence of war crimes and is clearly willing to testify. That’s very useful information . | 0 |
My understanding is they are asserting some ballots weren’t tallied properly because of machine errors? And instead of correcting the error poll workers placed the ‘uncounted’ ballots in with ballots that were already counted properly? | There's an allegation by the GOP that in at least two instances, ballots in these secured holding bins were "co-mingled" with already electronically tabulated ballots. Maricopa County seems to acknowledge that this happened, but states that they have a procedure for un-mingling these ballots accurately. | 1 |
Maybe this is an unpopular opinion, but Tesla is not important in the evolution of EVs. At least not anymore - they used to be, but the market has caught up to them and overtaken them, which is why the Tesla stuck is down to 50% what it was at the start of the year. And it is still overvalued. Now they just make sub-par hugely overpriced cars in a market where many other manufacturers make way better EVs for cheaper. The only aspect where Tesla is in front is charging network, but even that is changing. Most major markets for Tesla either already regulate that their chargers need to be able to be used by all EVs not just Teslas, or such regulation is coming. | Tesla's in European markets use the standard J1772 plug because that was the standard when Tesla arrived in Europe. | 1 |
A year? This has been going on for at least a decade. The West has a weird fetish with claiming Putin has dementia/Parkinson's/Cancer, etc. | They did not claim Putin was in perfect health, every comment they made focused on claims that were speculating on severe illnesses like Parkinson's, Alzheimer's etc. | 1 |
No but some cities have been trying to ban gas stoves for new housing developments. Franky I think its pretty ridiculous and I think people should be able to buy whatever appliances they want for their house. | 100 years from now, people are gonna look back at us as insane for building these huge gas networks for our home kitchens. | 1 |
This was around the time the "tea party" started happening (even if a lot of that was astroturfed by right wing Libertarian billionaires). This was the point that the rubes basically started seizing power from the GOPers and electing their own guys into office, who not only spouted the bullshit propaganda lies like the GOPers did, they actually believed this shit. | With the way the GOP media ecosystem operates and the fact their base seems drawn to unrepentant liars, assholes, and idiots, I'm half expecting this whole fiasco to turn into this guy becoming their next "shining star". | 1 |
Railroad workers are still on call even when they go home, unless they use PTO. They can't schedule a doctor's visit when their employer might suddenly call them into work. They can't do much of anything at all. | They can't do that, because they aren't. Republicans are the party of rich white men, Democrats are the party of rich people of any skin colour and gender. | 1 |
Yes, because Russia is afraid of NATO attacking it right now... NATO won't even let Ukraine launch missiles over the Russian border in fear of retaliation, but they're going to launch a full scale invasion of Russia once they see that Russia is running low on cruise missiles. | If we accept that Russia was able to invade Ukraine because Ukraine does not have nukes, wouldn’t Russia want to avoid any possible scenario where that logic could be used against them? Between that and the fact that international inspections occur, I’d assume that Russia is not even touching what they’ve allocated for nukes, even just as a way of maintaining an exit strategy for the war. | 1 |
Yea. I know they will try to move many body's just beyond the trail as to not demoralize climbers, but those are more recent bodies, but that's as far as they're going. | Some dead mountaineers got pushed off cliffs to get rid of them, others were kept where they are because it was impossible to get them out of the ground. | 1 |
Yeah, while one time debt cancellation is a nice thing, it's really a band aid that doesn't address the root problem, which is the interest being insurmountable. Plus the debt cancellation is a political lightning rod. | In the plan that the administration laid out, interest wouldn't accrue if a person was faithful in payments--but this only applied to income based repayment plans. I personally think they should just extend this to all federal loans, even if someone isn't on an IBR plan. | 0 |
They are making so much from the gas price increases and the need for Europe to replace Russian gas, the Norwegian government has said that they want as much of that profit to go back to ukraine as possible as to not be considered war profiteering. | Whatever Norwegian grants that go to Ukraine will not have to be paid back but they might come with demands of anti-corruption work or pro-democratic goals being met but the situation is very different for Norway right now because of how much money is coming in from gas as a direct result of this war. | 1 |
Now, if you wanna blame people like Manchin and Sinema and the GOP for gumming up Congress to such an extent that corporations go effectively unregulated, I’m with you. But there’s no direct line between Biden’s actions and this specific disaster. | The point I was making is that if Biden had just clearly stated the issue to the public, repeatedly. Showed up in Ohio, and viscerally tore down the governor for not declaring a state of emergency so that he could render aid...Then Republicans would have been completely castrated. | 1 |
But knowing the leadership in the Pak military, it is the country MOST LIKELY to use it's nukes out of all the countries that have nukes. | They don't have ICBMs; so yeah in retaliation they might nuke some other country, but can't nuke mainland US. | 0 |
So you know nothing about the start of this conflict? Pity. I’ve already stated that that I’m against settlements excepting East Jerusalem, and at that only to a point. Beyond that I’ll stand next to you and criticize Israel and often have, but the claim that Jews showed up and stole land is false. | So you cannot legitimately state that Israel didn't steal land. They did, and still do to an extent. | 1 |
>“A 2021 study found the ice shelf could shatter within the next five years, and last year scientists said the Thwaites Glacier is hanging on "by its fingernails" as the planet warms, with the potential for rapid retreat in the coming years”. | “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.”. | 1 |
30-50% less meat seems like a small price to pay to me, even as someone who eats meat. We’re not asking to cut out all meat just some. Not bad. I can do that. | I get that. However, if our existing vaccines can be updated to fight this, and an outbreak is likely, I would bet Big Pharma is already working on, or at least has a plan to make, a targeted version. | 1 |
Edit: Just wanted to add one of Ryder's comments, related to the so-called "cease-fire": "Russia is good at exporting violence; they are not good at exporting truth.". | This is it. This is him throwing everything he’s got at it. There is no ‘total war’, there is no ‘full mobilization’, that will magically conjure more weapons deliveries, more logistical capability, more firepower. If he could produce more weapons? He would have been doing it already. This is all there is, there ain’t no more. | 1 |
It doesn't quite work that way though, because doing so requires you to ignore the law re immunities. If you have laws that say "x is illegal except that in ABC circumstances, there shall be no liability for x," then it's not ignoring the law to apply to the carveout. That's just following the law. | What kind of law are we upholding though? Sometimes this faux neutral stance itself is a bad one- should the children of monarchs really be given a free pass to have people they dislike chopped up? | 1 |
Going to be kind of hard justifying an escalation when they are the ones caught red handed with a spy balloon (assuming it is a spy ballon). | Not to mention, if it was just an innocent weather balloon gone astray, wouldn't a simple heads up be prudent? | 1 |
The real core issue is Xi. He reversed China's previous direction which both makes them a less valuable partner to the west and threatens their economic rise. | Modern China would not be possible without the participation of the US, and the US is withdrawing its support. It's only a matter of time before all their accumulated problems drag them down. All the US has to do is go home. | 1 |
Having said all this. Maybe there was some assholes running this course that ignored all the rules and just wanted to see some guy jerk it onto a book. I dont know, I wasn't there . | They tailor the experience to the individual. If he was a God botherer, then getting him to simulate a wank over a bible seems par for the course. Remember, the difference between a simulated sex act and an actual sex act is crucial. | 0 |
A smaller group of latinos find the effort to change the word at all offensive, though. Based on the quote from the sponsor of this bill, it seems he would fall into that camp. Some people see this effort as the product of white people and third-generation latinos who primarily speak English to change their language from the outside, and consider the effort an attack on their own language and culture. | Finally consider this, your point "white English speakers trying to change Spanish grammar when the English word, Latin Americannis naturally gender neutral" is very similar to what these Dems are trying to do. | 1 |
Remember that this whole thing started when Mahsa Amini was killed, and it is reported that Mahsa was not interested in politics and didn't really care to go against the regime. Yet they killed her because the morality police had a bad day that day. | I am not denying the fact that the Islamic Republic oppresses Kurds. I am not even denying that the Islamic Republic oppresses Kurds more than other ethnicities (maybe other than the Baloch). I am merely pointing out that the overwhelmingly vast majority of Iranians are being tyrranized by the Islamic Republic. | 0 |
At Twitter, there is no management layer steering the ship, it's just him, and so far he's a disaster. The only way to make his management look competent is to claim he's purposely trying to tank the company. I think the simplest explanation, that he's out of his depth, is the most likely. | Elon Musk is a chode. When he was still fighting to get put of buying Twitter, his main angle of attack was that Twitter was flooded with bots, more than was disclosed. | 0 |
That is very possible tbh. Behind the scenes maybe China is like "hey we're gonna keep pretending we are threatening you, but no worries, its politics". | you're reading that hella wrong, unless you're suggesting nobody should interfere and let China/Taiwan sort it out cuz that's what it sounds like you're suggesting. | 1 |
Nobody likes what's happening, but his promise in the elections was to reestablish our foreign relations and telling Russia to go fuck themselves wouldn't help that much, especially now that Bolsonaro shut down our fertilizer factories (made by Lula and Dilma over 10 years ago) and we became heavily reliant of Russia once again. | Brazil was inserted into the new world order with the BRICs, but he has his place in the old one. Not saying it's righteous, but it's how the country aligns its Foreign Affairs - by not telling others how to do things but understanding and trying to counsel within its interests like any other country as well as the US and Europe which are the current holders of the status quo and have all the interest in Ukraine. | 0 |
While I agree some of the issues will still be there, abortion is still something that the majority of Americans want to be available. That won't go away in 2 years and Gen Z is now a BIG factor. Take into account that boomers are dying and the younger generations are heavily leaning to the left, the onus is going to be on the republicans to come up with something more creative to act offended toward. The republicans are becoming more and more unpalatable to the increasing majority of Americans. People tend to react very strongly to having their rights taken away from them and their kids. Gen Z seems to be thinking long term and has dug in on voting for their rights instead of cultural issues used to distract at the very most. | The right is getting more and more desperate. Americans don't want to be ruled by authoritarians, christians, old white men who are out of touch or anyone who is as extreme as any MAGA candidate. It's encouraging to know that the GQP is being crushed and rejected by most facets of society. The majority isn't buying what the republicans are selling. So, either the republicans change their ways or they'll be extinct in the next few election cycles. | 0 |
Even if Air India was buying anything like an Embraer jet, if simply makes better economical sense to bulk order (of all jet sizes) from one manufacturer for better prices, maintenance and support advantages. | Yes the Max's have crashed (the Airbus not so much) but with improved technology and the minimal increased costs to operate a larger aircraft, it makes sense for most folks to take on the extra seats due to the increased revenue. | 1 |
You can spy on other countries with balloons, you can't do so in such an overt way to the population of that country. You can use balloons to spy, but you can't send fucking 50 floating around at the same time. | None of which is to say that I believe that it's a weather balloon. Just that you should always assume the party leadership of the PRC is always lying, no matter what they say. | 1 |
Yes, I mean it’s practically unknowable. On top of that, atheism as we think of it today is a relatively new concept. Sure, the nominally atheistic despots of our age may have pretty high body counts, but how does that compare to the multitude of instances throughout time of someone killing someone else because they don’t believe in the right god? | edit: I lied, I did cherry pick a bit, there were more in the middle ages that I skipped over, I'd never heard of them, and figured their small death counts weren't going to move the needle much against the backdrop of "atheist despots have killed more humans over time", and around >30M net-on-net deaths in my table above. | 1 |
Hitler could focus German economy and industry towards building a bigger army than any german president would be able to find public support for. At the start of the war Germany had relative good generals and well trained soldiers, but this is not because of Hitler or the nazis. The german generals that fought and wins the first part of the war were not trained by nazi Germany. They were not promoted during nazi Germany. They had been trained and promoted during the German Empire and the following Weimar Republic. They were good, not because Nazi Germany had made them, but because Nazi Germany had not destroyed them yet. | Had Hitler wait 10-20 years with starting WWII, then most of them would properly had lost their jobs or been killed for not being loyal enough and the army would have been much worse than it was in 1939. Because autocracies destroyes the good institutions they inheriates from democracies. | 0 |
Also, mankind has proven time and again that it doesn't need religion to dominate the "other" brutalize torture rape and create unspeakable horrors towards each other. If you look for something that needs to change it isn't the instrument but rather the condition of humans. . This is what (true) religion/s attempt to do yet typically, being a man made system/ideal it is ultimately bound to be corrupted and fail…as religions generally have. | a religion is not humanity it is a way to control people, the people being brainwashed and controlled by them are humanity, and the people would be far far better off without the religions. | 1 |
Shooting down 1000 dollar balloons with half a million dollar missiles could bankrupt the US in like a year if the US decided to continue this course. The reality is its just not cost effective to do this and that high up its unlikely the weight restrictions on balloons would make it more effective than satellites. | satellites balloons and planes are dependent on gravity. Without the earth's gravity the atmosphere would be pulled into the sun. | 1 |
That's policy. Now COVID complications and federal prison camps (especially camps with drug programs) being full complicate placement. That fictitious prisoner could be placed into a low security prison until an opening becomes available. | Part of the reason most white collar criminals are placed into low security prisons is because those prisons are CHEAPER per inmate. | 1 |
When this offensive is repulsed Ukraine has the perfect opportunity for a large scale counter-attack because Russia will be spent for a while afterwards. | I remember when Ukrainians had successful counter attacks in Severodonetsk- but Russians just pulled back and shelled the area again. Counters on the flanks seem more promising. But let's hope Ukrainians don't have losses while doing these. Attacking is generally more dangerous. | 1 |
"Threatening the government officials of the United States is a felony under federal law. Threatening the president of the United States is a felony under 18 U.S.C. § 871, punishable by up to 5 years of imprisonment, that is investigated by the United States Secret Service.[1] Threatening other officials is a Class D or C felony, usually carrying maximum penalties of 5 or 10 years under 18 U.S.C. § 875, 18 U.S.C. § 876 and other statutes, that is investigated by the Federal Bureau of Investigation. When national boundaries are transcended by such a threat, it is considered a terrorist threat.[2]. | When a threat is made against a judge, it can be considered obstruction of justice.[3] Threatening federal officials' family members is also a federal crime; in enacting the law, the Committee on the Judiciary stated that "Clearly it is a proper Federal function to respond to terrorists and other criminals who seek to influence the making of Federal policies and interfere with the administration of justice by attacking close relatives of those entrusted with these tasks."[4]". | 0 |
It's crazy to me how on the other end of the country and political spectrum, we have school districts getting rid of AP classes in the name of equity: | These same suburban Republicans/moderate Democrats are flipping a shit over progressives wanting to remove AP/Honors courses for classroom equity reasons. I highly doubt they’re suddenly gonna be fine with it because of “woke shit”. | 1 |
The irony is great. I am curious why the dems haven't reached out to the more reasonable republicans to nominate one of them. The chance to stop the MAGA and crazy legislative slate is pretty much there for the taking. | EDIT\ there are far too many comments to respond to so I will post my one thought about it here. They don't need to nominate an active house member. They can nominate Liz Cheney, they can nominate Bill Gates, they could nominate anyone that they can get 6 republicans to agree on. There may be a few dems that would never nominate a republican but I think there is someone out there that the democrats can partner with 6+ GOP members on to get put in. It would show good faith from dems to vote with some GOP members and it would totally stop the waste of a legislative session by ending the upcoming wasteful "investigations" into the FBI, DOJ, Hunter Biden, Jan 6th committee and any other crazy stupid thing the modern GOP want to go after. | 0 |
There hasn't been a lot of polling on it this year, but as of the last results he has a pretty ugly negative net approval in Utah. That might have just been backlash from him supporting Trump's impeachment and might have worn off by now, but I've yet to see him make it into positive since. | edit: I will say in the spirit of fairness, disapproving of him doesn't mean that these people disapprove enough to vote for a Democrat or stay home and not vote. | 0 |
Europe’s armies are armed with Leopards, and Norway has decided to spend its money buying this tank because of European standardisation. How will you argue against what THEY JUST SAID? | Do you think they would be using the American built military infrastructure and training? Or start anew? Obviously they would be going with what they already have in place. The Iraq army is American armed and trained. That maintenance capability is a holdover due to supporting the large American presence. It’s not some home grown domestic capability. | 0 |
That seems unlikely. Blue and red states don't typically switch parties each election bc they're upset at current leadership. That's more of a purple state thing - and only then, bc of fraction of voters who identify as independents and people without strong party affiliation. In other words, most people don't swing ideologies broadly. | I don't think they'll attack us bc they are us. Almost all of us have friends and relatives in other states. Also, they'd draw massive global condemnation. Lastly, again, they need the funds for the army and red states are poor. Just imagine they institute a 10% flat tax, for instance. They'd be struggling to get anything done, let alone maintain a powerful army. At the same time, as much as I have serious qualms with it, robotic warfare is gaining ground and blue states tend to have the tech people. but again, I don't even think it'll come down to warfare. | 0 |
We just asked for independence nicely, and one of the stipulations for gaining freedom is the instituting of a constitutional monarchy. Which means while we run our nations completely independently, the British Monarch is still the head of state, even if they have no actual power inside the countries. | Well, it's not exactly independence if a representative of a foreign head of state can dissolve your government, or even have a say in dissolving your government, regardless of their relation to the monarch. I wouldn't call that independent, anyway. | 1 |
i dislike the iranian govt as much as the next guy, but theres no way the israeli govt gives a damn about iranian civilian casualties compared to the strategic importance of knocking out nuclear sites lol. | I don't agree with a lot of what the Israeli government does, but in terms of keeping your entire country from being destroyed overnight, it's better to be proactive and stop a bomb being built in a lab than it is to enter an all out war or have to suffer an atomic bomb. | 1 |
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