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Russia likely can't occupy or even reach Kiev, but Crimea is still defendable. It's probably not worth it for them and will accelerate the collapse of the Russian state, but it's still possible. | I know it sounds silly and Russia probably isn’t that stupid to use a nuclear device in any capacity… but I feel like they’re getting desperate and almost all bets are off at this stage. | 1 |
La inmunidad de arresto está contemplada en el art. 69 [Constitución Argentina], que dispone que “ningún senador o diputado, desde el día de su elección hasta el de su cese, puede ser arrestado; excepto el caso de ser sorprendido in fraganti en la ejecución de algún crimen que merezca pena de muerte, infamante, u otra aflictiva.”. | She can’t go to prison now but certainly she can once she is no longer Vice president. If she appeals, she will be out of office by the time she can end up in prison. Immunity is applicable while in office only. | 0 |
"It's a shame. It makes us look foolish. If I didn't know any better, it's like the Democrats paid these people off," Rep. Dan Crenshaw, Texas Republican, told Fox News. "Let's make it look like the Republicans can't govern and don't deserve any gavels whatsoever. That's what it makes it look like.". | Good. Fuck 'em; couldn't have happened to a nicer guy. It's politicians like McCarthy who are the worst for the country. Only in it for themselves and not for the good of the American people - not that it wasn't obvious by his party affiliation these days, but McCarthy was an especially brash and open example of hypocrisy and saying / taking any position to be in power. | 1 |
3. There's only a beef-eating culture in Brazil because the Portuguese invaders (among others) brought such culture to the territory, in their process of extracting all the mineral wealth (silver, gold) from the territory to send it back to Europe. Had they never invaded and conquered, the rain forest would be just fine today. | I agree in a more general sense, since beef is an extremely trophic-level inefficient source of sustenance. So much water and space used to raise food with nutrients you could effectively get from food that's more efficient with the world's resources and total space, and also to grow/raise. | 0 |
He stole data and took it to China and Russia, that’s treason. Further, half of his claims- at least- are absurd. There’s a way domestic intelligence collection works, and it’s not what Snowden said it was. | You’re a random stranger claiming you know more about domestic surveillance then Snowden. Doubtful you even sniffed a security clearance because you’d know it’s not classified info to disclose your clearance level. So, either put up or shut up. | 1 |
Not to mention completely shattering the world's perception of their military might. So many works of fiction made their military look to be cutting edge with highly trained soldiers, but actual combat footage has shown that they're anything but. They went into Ukraine with old and poorly maintained gear and ineffective troops that didn't even know why they were there. | I'm talking about radio dramas, movies, novels, video games, and TV shows. There were multiple generations who grew up with the idea being thrown around that Russia was a considerable military threat, even without the use of a nuke. I can't help but imagine that that notion died in Ukraine, along with a good chunk of Putin's cardboard army. It almost makes me wonder if any future video games will continue to use Russia as the opposing team in military shooters? | 0 |
The thing about the legal system is that it relies upon precedence to work efficiently, as whatever ruling was given in the past case should be the same ruling given in a present case of similar circumstances. Going further, courts lower than the Supreme Court must defer to precedence in their rulings, and have to go out of their way to explain why a current situation is different than the previous ones if they try to go against the precedent. | Now with Trump, things have been taking many years to work their way through the legal system because it’s all unprecedented. There hasn’t been a situation in the past where an ex-President refused to hand over their tax information to Congress, nor has there been a situation where an ex-President refused to return classified materials to the Presidential Archives, etc etc for all of Trumps legal issues as an ex-President. | 0 |
He's 48, he just pulled a life sentence with a minimum 32 year tariff (your typical murderer on a life stretch serves about 18 years in the UK, IIRC). | He was sentenced to a life sentence, where after the 30 years it will be reevaluated if he’s no longer a danger to society. | 1 |
If Israel is providing any support- and is willing to keep Russia's 1 ally Iran in check, it would be stupid for them to jeopardize that. | If it happened it would be more about paying Israel back for supporting Ukraine if Israel went that route. The whole eye for an eye thing. | 1 |
On top of all that, Europe did cut their forests when the knowledge of agriculture was basic. Now we know a lot about it and have technology that our ancestors couldn't even dream of. There's no reason to cut down forests anymore. | Europe hasn't been a big-ass primeval forest since 11,000 years ago. By the end of the Bronze age 3,000 years ago almost all primeval forest was gone. So you're saying the EU should fund your deforestation today because otherwise we're hypocrites with our prehistoric forefathers? Pfff. | 1 |
Close them down. Governements of the affected countries should be furious and take action. Instead we get strongly worded statements and that's it. | You banned all foreigners from travelling to China and later requested everyone to have a negative pcr test and upload all kinds of personal information. And then when you enter China you're put in quarantine for 8 days at some state run facility (not your hotel). And you also have to pay for it! | 0 |
It's ok, there is no way that fifa boss Gianni Infantino will let Qatar boss him around and he is above reproach as he has absolute no connection to Qatar... checks notes... Ahh, it seems he moved himself and his family to Doha over a year ago and pays "rent" on a house - probably to one of the members of the royal family... | He response will be something along the lines of "Nothing to see here, and stop wearing fucking rainbow hats. By the way I should know what it's like to be persecuted, because I used to have rainbow colored hair". | 0 |
There won't be any off ramps or even negotiations. If Ukraine agreed to Russia's demand of recognizing the occupied terroritory there would be a bit of ceasefire until all the war elements are moved up to the new border and the war machine would start rolling again until it has consumed all of Ukraine or at least Kiev. | Russian media has been talking about NATO invading Russia for years before Russia invaded Ukraine, so it's easy to sell it to the population as a defensive war. | 1 |
The whole point of you going to prison is to be reformed and to come out a better person. However, this segregation will only lead to more crime because of how you’re treated and given less opportunities due to the system…. | That’s all good mate but I’m still shocked at how it’s considered a felony! Sorry to hear that you’re classed as a lower classed person for life. I honestly think it’s messed up…. | 0 |
If Brazil doesn't want Germany dictating who they can export to they should stop signing contracts with Germany to buy systems to put in said exports saying Germany has to approve all exports of those systems. | "Germany is producing critical parts of the tanks and Brazil has signed a treaty to not export them without germany's acceptance which is absolutely in line with all treaties of that kind.". | 1 |
The genocide story was never about millions dead. It was claimed that millions were detained and subjected to various types of abuse including torture. It was always about a cultural genocide, not something like the Holocaust. | In case you were referencing the Uyghur genocide, no one is talking about mass extermination of people there. The claim is rather that China detained more than a million people there to systematically erase Uyghur culture, which is sufficient to match the definition of genocide. | 1 |
Conservatives speak of the Constitution like it's a holy document. But in the past week Trump said we should just cancel the US Constitution, and this lawsuit is literally Republicans suing to make all state constitutions null and void. | 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. | 1 |
The solution is simple: pay teachers enough to make it a coveted job, protect them from crazy parents/admin, and make it a viable career path that new teachers want to begin. | Teaching should be one of the most highly paid positions we have so only the best of the best are teaching our children. | 1 |
He caucuses with the Democrats, which means Chuck Schumer — not Mitch McConnell — gets to decide what bills get voted on, what pace we confirm judges, etc. | Particularly 2018 Florida (sooo close) and 2020 Maine (wtf Susan Collins??). Those should have been Dem wins. | 0 |
if NATO is so afraid of having to actually serve its purpose and defend something that they refuse "risky" members then clearly NATO is no longer fit for purpose and should be dismantled. | but a defensive alliance that excludes a potential member because they may have to defend them is no longer fit for purpose. | 0 |
I liked what Yang said back in 2019-2020, but it just appears that he’s a grifter like so many others. Even looking at his history, he seems to have that sort of makeup. | Everything he does is a cash grab. Running this third party is no different, and the vote splitting is actually harmful to the party whose agenda he allegedly most closely aligns with. | 0 |
-in case of aggression against Russia with the use of conventional weapons when the very existence of the state is threatened. | -in response to the use of nuclear and other types of weapons of mass destruction against it or its allies, and also. | 0 |
And also in fairness to Germany, the Russian leader they were negotiating with probably did not realize himself how badly this war would fuck Russia's economy either. Putin seemed to truly believe he would sweep over Ukraine with only short-term economic consequences. It's obvious at this point that he never thought his army would be getting bogged down in an attritional war of annihilation and that Russia would be dealing with epic, unprecedented Western sanctions for an entire year straight at the same time. If he'd known this would be the outcome, he probably wouldn't have invaded. | Less a question of riches and more one of motivation. Germany's memory of the world wars is still fresher than most countries, and they have very little stomach for anything liable to start a repeat of the carnage. Before the 2022 invasion of Ukraine there is just no way the voters would have tolerated cutting back on Russian fossil fuel imports. | 0 |
This will probably be dismissed. But coming from the left, with a lot of friends on the left. There is a lot of criticism of DEI. Not because of its goals, which I agree with, but because of how it's implemented. For my job we had a week long dei training that everyone had to attend. A few problems. | They made discussion impossible. The q and a session was very limited and all the events (we attended probably over 20 speakers in five days) were more lectures than they were about discussion. | 0 |
Most places I've worked I've had managers that stated pretty openly that they know if they did drug testing for weed that they would have to fire too many good employees. | I’ve only ever been drug tested once I moved into higher paying jobs, I was never tested as an hourly worker. | 1 |
It’s probably good not to characterize pleading the fifth as an indicator of guilt, despite how disgusting Trump is. It’s such a harmful attitude to assume that if someone doesn’t want to testify, they must be guilty or a criminal. | If you’re the criminal defendant you don’t have to outwardly plead the fifth. The state has the burden of proof so by design you don’t have to put on a case at all if you don’t want to - your defense can be that the prosecution failed to meet its burden. Also throughout the entire proceeding the court pounds all of this into the jurors’ brains and the logical outcome - a requirement not to hold it against the defendant if they don’t testify. | 1 |
And generally speaking, Russian leaders have no idea how to succeed in the 21st century. They mentally live in a world that no longer exists, and their strategies show it. | I agree that it'd be a complicated equation of pros and cons. If the death rates were anything like those of Russian troops in the Ukraine-Russia war, I'd take my chances on a life somewhere else. Or do the jail time. Better that than dead. | 0 |
A lot of people had quibbles with your comment, but none of them pointed out that "regime change", by assassination, is exactly what Russia has been trying to do to Ukraine. | Ukraine says they won't negotiate in Putin, but if pigs fly and Putin one day just says "fuck it, we'll rolling back to 1990s borders", I'm fairly certain the Ukrainians will start to talk. Ultimately they care more about making themselves whole than replacing Putin, especially since there's no guarantee any Putin replacement won't be even worse. | 1 |
Ooh, these hackers are stepping into the war now, with a cyber-attack against a country specifically due to that country's involvement with defending Ukraine? | Would Russia believe independent black hat hackers are capable of a cyber attack causing physical damage? Probably not, and if so what does Russia have the capability to do as a response? Regardless of that answer there's a reason nobody is rushing to set these precedents. | 1 |
it's incredibly easy to get, yes. your ssn is probably floating around for sale by half a dozen data brokers. and that's only the semi-legitimate data brokers. | i'm not in georgia, but we should probably go vote by mail as the standard. too bad republicans are idiots. | 0 |
Christians just co-opted Saturnalia from the Romans, including lightning candles and the practice of gift giving, to give Christians a holiday to celebrate while the rest of the Roman Empire was celebrating a “pagan” holiday. | The existing Saturnalia festival which occurred over several days, featured exchanging of gifts, and was a rare time when Rome was lit at night by candlelight. | 1 |
Not only is it historically realistic, it's 100% possible with precedence to nationalize a rail line, fix it, and then return it to the private sector. | With so much reliant on rail transportation, we cannot sit by while private companies fail to act in the nation's interest and harm others through their mismanagement. | 1 |
Norfolk Southern were also supposed to show at a townhall and have ghosted it. They also only released full list of chemicals days after the controlled burn and Ohio already said the water was safe (how do you test the water w/o a full list of contaminants to test for?). | Yup. No way he’s not covering this shit up. But leave it to the Republicans to think they can keep their own residents from figuring out they aren’t being poisoned. | 1 |
Nixon also had a few good policies (ending Vietnam, OSHA act, forced desegregation) whereas Trump was just a stream of steaming bullshit. | Because it is a fact the Nixon admin ended the war as he was the commander in chief as that's how America works. | 0 |
Let’s just pretend like Cuba wasn’t a lapdog of the Soviet Union. Or that they didn’t base ICBMs there. | Last time I checked, people are still trying to get away from Cuba in droves and despite the internets best efforts to convince me otherwise, I don’t see a single communist based nation on this planet that’s capable of existing without being 100% dependent on outside western trade. | 0 |
We do know that nations ask for export permissions, even when they know they will be declined. What is stopping Poland or any other Nation to do exactly them same? | Isn't the whole fundamental idea that they can't be bothered with a bit of paperwork genuinely absurd? | 0 |
if I remember correctly, he was a veteran that gave up his American citizenship to become an Australian citizen. Unless Australia doesn't allow for dual citizenship, the fact he gave up his US citizenship means he could be disillusioned with how the US treated him after he left the military.. either that or he doesn't want to pay US taxes while living in Australia. | I was thinking more of how the US government 'took care' of him and other vets after they left the service. Or maybe something happened during his service and he felt betrayed. But the simplest reason to give up his citizenship is probably due to tax purposes. | 0 |
So there won't be any bankruptcy or spinoff necessary. A win for dominion would hurt the Murdochs in the pocketbook, but they'll still be billionaires when the dust clears. And Fox News will still be churning out misinformation, thought they might be a bit more careful when they attack large corporations in the future. | The only thing that would be a death blow for Fox News would be creating and enforcing standards and regulations on reporting. If they can’t spew propaganda and vitriol 24/7, the cult will change the channel and they will go under. | 1 |
Good genetics really helps. I have cheap Amazon led lights, five gallon buckets, a 20 dollar tiny desk heater. I check the tent each day, water about every third day. Harvest 3-4 ounces about every 90 days. Way more than I can use. The seeds are twenty bucks each though. | Yah, you can get 300 dollar weed, but come on. This isnt like my first time in a bar where someone is going to convince me its worth it to buy pricey booze. I have had 500 dollar ozzers and I have had 40 dollar ozzers. There's a reason i still buy 40 dollar over 200,300,400+ dollar ones. | 1 |
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. | Of course. I'm just setting the record straight that people literally cheered in the streets, en masse, when Sadam was overthrown. Also, it wasn't just some staged propaganda; the vast majority of the citizenry acted that way. | 1 |
When the two numbers are "1" and "millions", that does not take a genius . . Also does not really contain any information at all to say the number is somewhere in between those extremes. | Should the US be involved in fighting terrorism abroad? Obviously yes. Should the US use drones for that? Well, yes, why not? Will there be instances of bad missions? Obviously yes, have to break eggs to make omelette. You can then quibble about the details, the quantity and quality, and the whole. But just saying that Obama did drone strikes should not qualify as a "real controversy". | 0 |
So NK is going to invest heavily in developing nuclear weapons or maybe work on getting a spy satellite in orbit? Maybe they could kidnap some Japanese nationals? Or, possibly to match Japan's belligerence, test out missiles and hold war games nearby to Japan. | They shoot missiles over Japan, Japan responds by amping military, NK complains about military buildup? | 1 |
maybe instead of shitting on dems for not being completely perfect, you should find some way to convince republicans to stop being totally corrupt? | would it help if I told you we also did it before we lost the house, and removing the filibuster wouldn't have helped since a supermajority is required anyway? | 0 |
He believes NATO wouldn’t be ballsy enough and wouldn’t risk getting involved directly in the conflict as this could quickly spiral into the nuclear war. | Why he hasn’t done that is somewhat obvious: once he strikes, there would be 0 support from China or India. | 0 |
I'm pretty sure Bernie introduced his student policy in 2019 not 2016.The first person to announce student debt policy into her campaign was Liz Warren. | The problem is Sanders over promised and set the bar very high with his supporters during his campaign without even considering what congress would look like.He made people believe all that was needed was a bully pulpit to change votes in his favor, when in reality is even he would have massively under delivered. | 0 |
If building nuclear capable ICBMs is irrational, then the US, Russia, UK, India, China, France are all just as irrational - since they also have nuclear capable ICBMs. | If you assume an irrational actor, you have to assume a nuclear attack sooner or later and should strike first. He is not irrational but cruel and without empathy for his people. He wants to stay in power, which means he does not want to be annihilated by a nuclear counter strike which would be the precise consequence of an attack on the US. He rattles the sabre to remind people not to attack him. The current situation is the ideal outcome for him, there is literally nothing to gain for him in a nuclear war. | 1 |
When you vote for a Hindu terror org which is responsible for the rapes, murders of 1000s and destroyed lives of 100s of 1000s, you are a Hindu militant nationalist. | and if i vote for the other party i’m an anti-Sikh militant because they’re responsible for mass rampages that killed Sikhs. i’ll be stuck being an angry little turd on reddit like you. | 1 |
According to the US Department of Transportation, pipelines are the safest way to transport energy. Statistics from the National Transportation Safety Board show pipelines make up less than one one-hundredth of one percent (0.01%) of all transportation accidents in the U.S.. Safer for people and the environment. | Different pipeline but within the Keystone portfolio. A side note, no major media report on the multiples of train derailments carrying oil. Because pipeline leaks are rare, they get more coverage. | 0 |
US intelligence thinks the Russian death toll is 100,000 "killed and wounded". There's reason to think that the Russian dead-to-wounded ratio is around 1:5 (US would be at least 1:10, because of body armor, advanced medical care, etc. The historic ratio is 1:3 in most wars). | I suspect it's a bit higher, just based on the ferocity of the fighting. Maybe 30k Russian dead and 90,000-120,000 wounded, but I'd be surprised if it's any more than that. | 0 |
Even if Jews aren't technically a separate "race," the Nazis considered us to be one and persecuted us as such. Yes, we tend to have an advantage in that we can "pass for white," but that doesn't lessen the oppression. It means needing to live every day of your life as someone else - likely under a different name. (A "Joseph Goldman" wouldn't be able to give his real name and not arouse suspicion of being Jewish.) Just ask any LGBTQ person in a repressive society how "free" they feel having to "play straight" and hide themselves every second of every day lest they be discovered and persecuted. | Whether or not Jews (such as myself) actually fit the definition of a race is immaterial in this instance. The Nazis treated us like we were a separate race and persecuted us for it. | 0 |
I'm more interested to see if China will try to press Russia to accept a deal not acceptable to Putin to keep their logic on Taiwan consistent or drop support for Russia because fuck Russia's geopolitical goals, China's goals are more important to China than Russia's goals. | I think they could've used the russian argument that those territories were always russian, therefore Russia has the right to maintian its integrity with those regions (all of which is ofcourse complete bs on the russian part), and then use that to support their claim of Taiwan and Hong Kong, but they at least didn't likely because they know Russia will lose anyways so best not to hitch your horse to that. | 1 |
Edit: as others have pointed out, they meant the lead had narrowed to 551, not that there were only 551 votes left to be counted. Phew! | Same! It is a testament to how awful of a candidate she is that she can fail in such a miserable fashion, but hey, what else would you expect from this "FirEBraNd"? | 1 |
And if you wish to bring something to the table, maybe to fight the antisemitism among Arabs then why not focus focal point (Education) which you seem to agree with rather than Arabs as race(leading to racism) or Muslims as religion(leading to Islamophobia) being the reason. | It is fair if he is speaking about Arabs and Muslims as whole, he didn't specify Iraqis if that was the case I would've not commented instead he said "Reality is most Arabs" which is unfair categorization. | 0 |
Journalists have been banning people from social media for having done nothing which violates the site's TOS? | Twitter has suspended the account of prominent liberal journalist Aaron Rupar as well as reporters from CNN, The New York Times and The Washinon Post. | 1 |
My guess is that secretly a lot of people around Putin wishes there was someone sane in Putin's position, but it doesn't seem like anyone will act on it. | I dearly hope that going forward, people will stop hyping up these fucking ridiculous speeches from Putin…. | 1 |
I would guess that our government will attempt to find a loophole to allow sending weapons to Ukraine, but from my experience, swiss neutrality is here to stay for the forseeable future. | Switzerland can still be neutral and at the same time allow other countries to export weapons and ammunition that they've produced. I mean if the other country already purchased the items and have possession don't stand in the way. | 1 |
yeah, when the president literally concentrates the power in his person, closes the parlament that was also choose by the people and literally wants to rewrite the entire constitution of the country and other country wants to give asylum to the same guy that wanted to be a dictator the oligarchs are the ones to blame when Peru doesn´t want him to run from justice. | One of Castillo’s main campaign goals and the reason a lot of people voted for him was to reshuffle the corrupt congress and rewrite the constitution to remove clauses that have been damaging our country for so long, such as the Congress’ current ability to impeach presidents based on ‘moral incapacity’ at any given time, which was left vague intentionally and can mean anything at all. This constitution was written by the previous dictator of Peru as well mind you, and has been a hindrance on our country for decades now. | 1 |
If SCOTUS overturns _Obergefell_, states with marriage bans in their state constitutions can outlaw marriage equality despite the Respect for Marriage Act. The bill makes it so those states with revived bans still would have to recognize same-sex marriages performed legally in other states. | Well this bill actually covers gay marriage, unlike the 1st amendment. So if you were interested in protecting gay marriage, you would be supportive of this bill instead of trying to make an unrelated and irrelevant 1st amendment argument. | 1 |
The convinced ones know the truth….they cannot say it out loud because then they would be revealed as the Putin shills they are. You and I are convinced they know this too. | You are correct. He said that in the first half of his January 6th speech before his supporters March down to the Capitol at his direction. In that speech, he also said: | 1 |
I think it's pandering, and given that the next election is increasingly starting to look like a penalty kick, Labour doesn't have any reason to risk a major policy platform change. | And the fact that Starmer's Tory-Lite, Brexiteer-pandering watered-down "Labour" is the "good" outcome- or rather the best we can expect- is the most damning thing of all about UK politics. | 1 |
There’s a decent shot that MAGA republicans dig in too deep, and feel they have to back whoever they decide to back instead of McCarthy, then then GOP comes to the democrats and brokers a deal for someone even more moderate than McCarthy. | If McEachin were still alive, or had already been replaced, then it would only take five GOP Representatives to vote with the Democrats (whether or not one of those five were the candidate). | 1 |
They already couldn't handle the logistics for 100,000 soldiers when they were fresh. Another 500,000 can only hope to wear down the Ukrainians through sheer attrition as they throw countless soldiers into the meat grinder, which isn't an ideal strategy in the least. | As Ukraine gets too notch tanks delivered to them and them preparing for that atack for a while now chances are not that bad of untaine wining out the war of nutrition. | 1 |
No, not all police are bastards. In fact, the vast majority are hard working, good people, who perform a wonderful and necessary service. | Yeah crime has been increasing, and the number of deaths is a tiny fraction of total police interactions. Also (and unfortunately) since we in the US insist on having a lot of guns around, we will always have more deaths on all sides (people shooting others, but also police escalating more quickly than if guns weren't as large an issue). | 0 |
Actually M2 Bradleys using TOW missiles destroyed more Iraqi T-72 tanks in the Gulf War than the Abrams MBTs did. | Bradleys were the top ground tank killer of Desert Storm, F-111s were the top aerial tank killer of it. Neither get anywhere near the credit they deserve for how damn good and effective they were. | 1 |
The mRNA tech allows them to cover more strains at a single time. We understand the flu a lot better now too. | nah its actually better. Vaccine simulate getting ill without most of the side effects of getting ill. | 0 |
But yes, agree that it's going to be a mess for a while. Here's hoping for the most rational solution that benefits the original artists being used for the models, and art in general, while everyone gets to use these tools to unleash their own creativity. | It's way too simplistic to assume that artists are somehow only capable of creating things that are derivative of others' styles, and in this case, the AI art is directly emulating others' styles, not even coming up with its own. Are you an artist? A lot of learning consists of slamming paint around until it looks like something and refining your own randomness, not copying others at all. Real artists learn actual technique and materials skill, and principles of art, and put these to use instead of "learning" by chopping up existing art and making a collage out of it like AI is doing. | 1 |
I think it's only a bloody urban battle if there are Russian troops left behind in Kherson which may not be the case. | It will be so exciting to see Ukrainian forces enter a liberated Kherson city, though I shudder to think about what they might find when they get there. | 1 |
With India taking equipment from Russia the US wants to prop up Pakistan to maintain parity, this is something the US has been doing with Pakistan for decades, which is why they had their fleet of F16s in the first place. Neither of those countries give a shit about what the US and Russia are doing anywhere else, but the US (and most of the world) wants them to remain at a stalemate to the extent possible because and India/Pakistan/China conflict is bad news for everyone. | It doesn't really show that at all, those countries are more so neutral or supporting Russia to spite the West for its colonization and imperialism of their countries in the past, American influence is just as strong as its ever been especially now that the world sees how weak Russia really is, when you say multi-polar do you mean China? Because it's doubtful they can challenge the US hegemony in any significant way with all the internal problems they face now. | 1 |
Warnock won and its no secret in Washinon that she was planning on switching to Independent. So, in efforts to keep her committee assignments, she had to keep her promise to be independent, but not caucas with the GOP. | I think she caususes with the Dems, but you know McConnell would give her whatever she wants in terms of committees to switch sides. Keeping a power sharing agreement in play would be huge for Republican obstruction. | 1 |
I don’t understand how taking a phone out during class could be tolerated at any level. This would be like kids taking a Gameboy out back when I was in primary school; it would have been unthinkable. I get that teachers cannot physically take the phones but there is no way it should be allowed (policies like ISS unless it was a validated emergency or something). | Same here. I cannot imagine the distraction that modern cell phones would bring into classrooms. It’s already hard enough to concentrate and pay attention in gradeschool, but to have a device like a cell phone that you could discreetly look at and use to record, they never should be allowed out. | 0 |
It would be quite something but really not all that shocking if Biden managed to gather votes from Republican House members to keep things moving (at least avoid likely shutdowns). The GOP is doing some soul searching right now, and a few might just sober up and realize that governing effectively has a positive effect on approval. | We all had a pretty strong consensus, he's doing a great job. Nothing revolutionary, but he's also acting as a moderate within the party, meaning he's pulling the centrists further left. "Sassy Joe" is what my sis-in-law called him, and he totally is. | 0 |
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. | He's saying ignore China's continued crying, because if they actually tried anything they'd find out how hard it is to invade Taiwan and they'd have a bunch of allies ready to help. | 0 |
This is not entirely accurate. The FBI knew about the records, and there was an ongoing discussion with the archives. Also, the records turned out to mostly be public knowledge anway. | The DNC wants Biden out. It wouldn't surprise me if they didn't through him under the bus to prevent him from running again. The small loss they would take from that would be nothing compared to the loss if it were Biden vs anyone other than Trump. | 0 |
("In addition to these short- and intermediate-range ballistic missiles, the KPA has at least 700 long-range artillery aimed at the Seoul metropolitan area and northern parts of South Korea"). | ("North Korea maintains nearly 6,000 artillery systems within range of major South Korean population centers, which it could use to kill many thousands in just an hour, even without resorting to chemical or nuclear weapons."). | 0 |
Multiple judges have already said this will help them in certain legal cases as the specification allows them to point at certain edge cases regarding disability and sexuality discrimination (but ESPECIALLY disability discrimination) and tilt them in favour of the disabled party. | Man, people are really bending themselves over backwards to find reasons to say being anti-discrimination based on sexuality or disability is bad. | 1 |
It's much more complex than "descended from," they were forming their own culture alongside other African groups as a unique identity with a unique language and culture. | From my experience in talking to them it is about having a cultural attachment to their roots in being slaves without the skin colour aspect. There are Black people in America that do not share that heritage of slavery (even though of course they are subject to the same racism). It is therefore a more cultural distinction these days which makes racists calling Musk an African American even more evil as it tries to erase that culture built from the ruins of being enslaved. This is of course not universal as no culture is a monolith. | 1 |
- China finds Canada's actions in the Meng / Huawei / European lobbying situation particularly frustrating and at this point Xi doesn't event respect Trudeau enough to talk to him. | - Xi thinks Canada represented by Trudeau is the little brother of the US and doesn't even deserve a seat at the table with China given the poor relations. | 0 |
I mean. It's also weird for balance sheets. Give me 300 billion of someone else's money. I promise to give them all of the returns. | If the EU invests it. They will without a doubt take fees from the money under the guise of needing to pay people to invest it. That $330 billion in money will net some bankers some nice fees and some nice bonus checks. All while locking the money up for years and trickling it into Ukraine. | 0 |
Agreed. I live in a place where my vote doesn’t matter. I will be completely washed away by the volume from the other side. I completely ignore that, I read up on the candidates, learn about any ballot initiatives or bond proposals, and I vote knowing I’m tilting at windmills but the only way that outcome will ever change is if I and a lot of like minded voters get out there and vote. I’m not waiting for the polls to say everyone else is ready, I just cast my vote and move on. | I would never and have never poll’d prior to the official vote. There’s zero reason to vote more than once- especially considering that they literally can’t/won’t reach everyone who is going to ultimately vote anyway. | 1 |
I don't blame you. It's more surprising seeing teachers STAY at this point. How this country treats its teachers is shameful and disgusting. I hope you find or have found fulfilling employment that compensates you adequately, if not much better. . | This. This is why I’ve always been a strong advocate for tracking. I know it’s such a dirty word in the world of education. But in all honesty, the high level learners are not always going to help pull up the low learners, and in fact will usually be bored as fuck and start acting out. Tracking has the added benefit of making lessons much more closely aligned with each child’s abilities instead of having a over view lesson and then a crap ton of self guided work so teachers can then go do one one one or small group work. Someone is always going to get left behind this way. | 1 |
Yeah, he was prison, Wagner, surrendered, prisoner of war, given back to Russia, then killed for surrendering. | Heres an idea genius, if russia will kill me if i surrender, maybe i wont surrender. Or im sorry, let me extend my arm chair, if ukraine will kill me i surrender, maybe i shouldnt surrender. | 1 |
i agree in principle but as with everything it is a complicated matter. as far as i know some of these territories have voted to keep the status quo. as opposed to PR that wants to join the union. | I'd be very happy to see them join the union. It would finally give them representation in congress, and I imagine it would substantially improve their economic situation. And I think having a Latin American state would go a long way in promoting diversity within the US. | 1 |
Up through the first half of the 20th century neither the law, medical science, nor social attitudes made any meaningful distinction between gay and trans people. People who would now be considered either gay or trans were all considered - people believed to have an inborn reversal of "natural" gender traits. A woman who desired other women was considered to be "sexually male", a man who desired other men was considered "sexually female", while bisexuals were called "psychosexual hermaphrodites". | A person who was born male, happy as such, and conventionally "masculine" in all respects except for his desire for other men, and a person who was born male but identified and lived exclusively as a woman, were considered variations of the same "inversion." The former was seen as "inverted" solely in his sexual desires, while the latter was seen as "inverted" in all aspects of her personality. | 0 |
Meanwhile in Russia: a pundit argues that younger men should be trained and sent into combat, so there are no widows or children to pay when they get killed. Another argument is that Russians over 40 are too worn out by alcohol consumption to run, jump or be any good in combat. | "The force of arms replaces diplomacy because it is the only language that Putin and the Kremlin are ready to understand" she added. | 0 |
All of these people in LCOL red states are big mad that Californians and New Yorkers are moving to their states, outbidding them on houses and services, but none of them ever stop and consider why all these people from blue states are so much better off than them in the first place. | I'd imagine the majority of the ones leaving are republicans. It doesn't matter though, red or blue, they all benefited from the same Californian policies. | 0 |
The reason why unions are so important is in the cases of billions of dollars of capital negotiating as a single unit (corporations), while labor negotiates as individuals. The labor/capital curves end up looking like the supply/demand curves of a monopoly. Unions are one solution to this problem, the other being breaking up giant companies. When mom and pop places hire people, they have to compete with all the other mom and pop places in their industry the same way workers compete against other workers. Imagine if the gardening department and menswear department of Walmart had to compete against each other for retail workers. Both wages would rise. | So unions hired by corporations are more likely to have fairer wages, and tiny businesses hiring individuals are also more likely to have fairer wages. | 0 |
Additionally it’s stated to be a grenade launcher which is not a rocket launcher, but even common sense would dictate the same rules apply, if you don’t know what your doing with it you don’t touch it until you get help. I WOULD expect any reasonable person to know that you should not handle deadly weapons like they are toys, and I ESPECIALLY expect a senior police officer to know that. | Well, the police chief likely has not seen the type of launcher (or any launcher) before and has no reason to know how to safely handle one, so it's hardly his fault. | 1 |
It also annoys me that the media calls this shit "Right to Work". Can you imagine the conservative anger if the media called it "Union Stomping" or "Right to Poverty"? | You can disagree with your union and still be part of the union. I would say lots of people regularly don't agree with everything their union does, just like most people don't agree with everything their government does. | 0 |
Source: Have handled the equipment and had to shoot rubber bullets at violent protesters. If you’re interested in more info: | Fired using an ordinary rifle eg M-16 using similar propulsion to what normally sends a bullet through a human that is 2x-4x farther than the close distance that “Rubber Bullets” are normally fired at. | 0 |
It's not Trump's fault really, I mean he exposed the Republican platform but even if he's gone we have a lot of evidence of the Republican platform, Trump or not. | They will use Trump as a convenient scapegoat - which will allow them to ignore the fact that their policies and platforms are cruel and unpopular. It wasn’t reproductive rights, it was Trump It wasn’t the fact that they have publicly stated that they want to cut Social Security and continue to deny climate change, it was Trump. | 1 |
Note how the argument is always “who can blame companies? It makes them money!” While simultaneously “individuals are to blame for not changing their lifestyles by using the cheapest stuff consumerism etc.”. | Why do businesses get let off the hook when they dominate the options, but individuals are expected to shoulder the blame when they just react to what actually available? | 0 |
So taking a stand against the new axis of evil where Iran, Israels mortal enemy, is a central actor is not a reason to aid Ukraine? Because Ukraine hurt their feelings? | My country has nothing to gain from Ukraine, we border Russia and they are pissed at us for our support to Ukraine. And we have reccord energy prices in a country that is frozen during winter and alot of us use electricity for heating. I cant burn wood to heat my place, i have heating cables in all my floors. My eletricbill is way higher. | 0 |
If the Ukrainians want to fight to the last Ukrainian against the Russian menace, what's so bad about the west arming them and benefiting from it? | I'm going to play devil's advocate here: several years is bad for both Ukraine and Russia. But, keeping the war in Ukraine (with only Russia as the other war party) is in Europe's and USA's best interest. And as long as the west is only supplying arms, Russia has a very weak case to get more direct help from / involvement of friendly nations (namely, china and India). | 1 |
The first time I had that thought was when I heard some particular opinions about WW2. I'm sure you can guess the general gist of it. | Pretty much. Racists believe that every person with a particular skin color is exactly the same, so them being racist = all white people are racist, in their minds. | 1 |
Republican counties had a 20% higher death rate the democrat counties in 2019, despite that repubican and democrat registered voters had the same age adjusted death rates at that time. Starting in September 2020 the registered republicans started to die at a faster rate then democrats did, and that gap has gotten wider over time. | From what I can tell taking all causes of deaths together there were 200k more republicans who died then democrats in the last 12 months. That sounds like a lot but spread out over the country its only like .2-.3% of the electorate in any given race, so in reality it probably only effected a handful of races. If it stays at this elevated rate going forward then maybe it will be enough to push them out of power forever, but who knows if they will change their ways. | 0 |
McConnell voted for the infrastructure bill. The infrastructure bill includes money for a Cincinnati-Kentucky bridge. McConnell gets a bridge he can tout as an accomplishment for his constituents, Biden gets bipartisan support for his bill (which McConnell makes a capital "B" Bipartisan). | From Canada looking in, so every Republican votes against everything that Biden and the Democrats tried to pass and yet Biden is still seeking bipartisanship . Days after Republicans take the house. I'm just going to notch it up as me not understanding how the American politics works. | 1 |
Don't destroying these Russian units means that they will continue destroying Ukrainian cities and killing Ukrainian soldiers. | I reckon that there are other factors that are limiting the delivery speed and number of weapons and vehicles to Ukraine than just politics. | 0 |
Why so many people saying the Chinese vaccine don’t work? There is data out there verified by not China that it is in fact very effective. Just because you get fever doesn’t mean anything, as long as a ICU visit is prevented it has done it’s job. As for the unvaccinated that’s on them for not doing it and listening to people like this who says vaccines are not that effective. | Rebuttal 1: If the vaccines were effective then that would have naturally resulted in a zero covid outcome for the vaccinated. | 1 |
So far India has been maintaining a very dangerous situation with other nearing countries like China and Pakistan at the border of India. Therefore, India needs more powerful military organizations. A.K.A India bought huge amounts of petroleum & natural gas, at very cheaper costs many times from Russia regardless of the US & EU's negative responses. India does not have any interest in the Ukrainian war, at the same time, the nation would like to obtain an awesome weapon-building technology to punish China at the border of India. | India could have ten times as much military forces at present and it's still not really a -threat- to China, even if on paper they could win a conventional conflict. Likewise, China with ten times their present forces isn't really a threat to India simply because they've got other fish to fry, so to speak. | 1 |
Yeah, and everyone always just kinda move on? That’s what people are trying to say, the fact that male politicians pull worse shit than this and a lot of the time they still have a platform and people just shrug. | Not really, you see news about male politicians doing that shit all the time. Isnt it like every other year when some homophobic conservative gets outed for having sex with male prostitutes. | 1 |
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