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Except they can't even do that right. It's really hard to blame the dems for not helping the GOP pick a speaker. | Maybe, but from what I’m seeing, no matter who gets the speakership for the Republicans, they will need Democrats’ support to get almost anything done. | 1 |
2. Herd immunity would not necessarily be conferred against mutations. Mutations are different from the original strain; some are so different that they can evade our body's existing defense systems. This is why as the pandemic continues and more mutant variants arise, pharmaceutical companies are designing new vaccines, because the old vaccines are not as effective against new variants. Your body's immune system is no different. If you caught COVID near the beginning of the pandemic, your immune system would know how to identify and destroy that original strain. But it may not know how to do so against Omicron or any potential future variants, depending on how different they are. In other words, future mutations would still have just as much of a chance of infecting you and producing symptoms. | I suppose, at least, it would be helpful to identify any potentially dangerous mutations as early as possible. | 1 |
We shouldn't be. The sale of vital infrastructure to foreign nations is a national security risk. Even if they don't use it against us directly, if we ever have to forcefully nationalize a company and seize it from a foreign government, it will impact our ability to trade in the future. | COVID wasn't the only problem in recent times. When Russia and Saudi Arabia had their trade war it dropped prices per barrel into the negative. This caused multiple shale mining operations and numerous refineries to shut down. Then, the previous administration went and made a two-year deal with Saudi Arabia to lower production output. Once that agreement ended, in mid 2022, prices started to fall at a rapid pace up until Russia and Saudia Arabia agreed to lower production again. Not to mention oil company profits are up significantly due to price gouging. | 0 |
They also get to further hurt the LGBTQ+ community during the whole process, and get to point at drag queens as "causing the kids to be trans" which is an added bonus for them. | I think the whole point is to find a way to ease into outright banning trans people. If they can wiggle their way into fully banning drag shows and/or labeling them as adult content, then they can move into labeling any trans person just walking down the street as being "obscene" or "offensive." It also lumps the two groups together for people who don't understand the differences, and pushes the narrative that trans people are only "performing.". | 0 |
Musk's love affair with MAGA morons is going to fuck him over. He's not going to be able to afford apartheid Twitter by pissing of his Tesla customer base and I don't see MAGA conservative buying his cybertruck and Tesla branded truck nuts anytime soon. | He needs to return the public money he took from government handouts but other than that he can keep whatever is left after the collapse of Tesla (and the inevitable fall of everything else that the Ponzi is propping up) and then he can fuck off. | 1 |
Can you elaborate on how someone's compulsive behavior drove them to kill someone? Ted Bundy made that claim in one of his later prison interviews, but it was. | Thanks. But I'm not seeing porn usage as a causal factor in any studies I can find. I'm not sure I follow your point, sorry. Are you trying to make an argument that porn should be outlawed for adults? | 0 |
Russia is clearly the external aggressor seizing territory and annexing it permanently from Ukraine which is clearly forbidden by the UN Charter. | The Russian Federation broke their most important treaty obligation when they invaded Ukraine in 2014 and subsequently annexed territory. They can’t claim the rights of the USSR if they abandoned the responsibilities of the USSR. | 1 |
For two and a half centuries, the words they never really meant have lived on as a sword in the hands of the oppressed. The world is a better place today because they claimed high ideals as their justification for creating America as an independent nation, and because they thereby permanently opened America to rebuke with its own hypocrisy. | The U.S. is a "freekin' awesome country" because it was founded upon enlightenment ideals (to which it asymtotically approaches), is a bastion of freedom, has become the most powerful nation to have ever existed, creates peace and hope, does awesome things like landing on the moon, has altered the direction of history for the better, and created the greatest food of all time: Pizza. | 1 |
It would mean that other people potentially wouldn't have access to blood that would normally be made instead. | It would mean that other people potentially wouldn't have access to blood that would normally be made instead. | 0 |
Investing a large sum of money and putting the profits to work can go a looong way and personally i have a feeling that Ukraine will still be feeling the effects of the war 10 years down the line (rebuilding stuff, clearing mines, ect.). | 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. | 1 |
They were also not found by any government agency such as the FBI, they were found by a team trump has hired and paid, there was absolutely more documents there, the two they gave up probably aren’t very incriminating while the others are and were most likely destroyed in the search. | Can you fucking imagine if the FBI had reason to believe you were illegally holding classified documents, and you were allowed to hire your own team to search for them? | 1 |
I'm sure to the Russians it's great propaganda because they see Ukraine as a NATO puppet. Meanwhile in Ukraine they say "We will suffer all the real hardship and loss of life in this war as long as NATO keeps helping us to reclaim our freedom.". | While true that we need to care about what Russia considers escalation a little bit, it's important to both distinguish between escalation and anger (a lot of things the West does merely angers Putin) and to think about what escalation really is in practical terms rather than a more nebulous "bad thing." addressing this topic in depth. | 0 |
This is basically the only real answer. Russia will probably end up having all their over seas assests seized and have to pay the following at minimum. | The cost of us having to aid ukraine against an illegal war (remember before i hear "what about us" we have ALWAYS had a legal cause for war). | 0 |
The US investigation says that bullet was likely fired by IDF: "SEE? This 100% proves it was an Israeli bullet. Thank goodness we finally have an honest investigation!". | Yup. And it was funny seeing people talk about it after they had already decided before any information was out there that Israel had deliberately targeted her. | 0 |
No one has explained to me, logically how gay marriage affects the family dynamic. Gay people are not going to marry straight, at least not without a lot of suffering and ultimately a bad marriage. | Lots of people hate LGBT folks (who are not actually responsible for their own oppression). Politicians like votes so they tap into this negative energy to keep their jobs. | 1 |
Real world examples: Trans people. Gay people. Drag queens. Migrants. Librarians. Teachers. Every Democratic politician up to and including Biden and Harris. “Woke leftists.”. | Fox News is saying untrue horrible BS about every one of these people/groups all the time, every bit as bad as what they said about Dominion, poisoning their neighbors and communities against them. But maybe it doesn’t rise to the legal threshold of “defamation” because they aren’t attacking one individual directly, they’re spewing their godawful venom about the whole group and we don’t write laws to protect groups of people from collective defamation. | 0 |
You’re right. They aren’t trying to enact change at all. But that’s not what I’m saying. They are angry, that’s why they are doing this. And because little is being done the about source of climate change (corporate greed) after trying other methods of protesting, the anger that they are displaying is justified. | I don't think it's the best way to raise attention for environmental causes, but honestly nothing else has worked for the last 50 years, so... | 1 |
Your headline must be comprised only of the exact copied and pasted headline of the article - ) We recommend not using the Reddit 'suggest a title' as it may not give the exact title of the article. | Your headline must be comprised only of the exact copied and pasted headline of the article, with few exceptions - ) We recommend not using the Reddit 'suggest a title' as it may not give the exact title of the article. | 1 |
The point I was making is that the warmongering mentality isn't unique to Putin but that there are many people in positions of power who would try to continue or even try to escalate the war further. | I don't doubt that Putin would like to attack America, but he can want to do something all he wants, if he isn't able to it doesn't matter what he wants. | 1 |
As a Pole, I'll tell you that that Russian would've been right if we thought the way they do, but the simple fact is Poland has given up any expansionist aspirations long ago. It's just Russia that's still stuck in the 20th century with 20th century logic. | There's a reason Russia pushes these stupid ideas. Sure they'd love to tear some pieces off of Ukraine so that they could sieze the rest more easily but even if they see that it's not going to happen it's still a good way to increase suspicion between Ukraine and it's neighbors. | 1 |
So you combine all those factors with the historical issue of US culture stigmatizing black folks as inherently criminal or dangerous. | Trying to demand racial parity from them would be silly, because each individual police department is different. Let’s say black folks are the suspect in 11% of the crimes in Polk County. Would you require the Polk County PD to keep track of all their tweets and intentionally feature black mugshots in 11% of them? | 0 |
That is very purpose of the channel, have you heard a lot of criticism of Qatar by any other country? | Its like how fox news first started with good journalist and some opinion pieces over time once they got viewership they pivoted slowly and now is basically a opinion tv and not a news channel. | 0 |
11th circuit really stopped short of calling Trump appointed judge Cannon illiterate in law. The judge should vacate the bench tbh not that it will happen but that would be the moral thing to do here. | I suppose she could be arrested for something, but the judge that hears that case is going to throw it out. She could be impeached by the House and upon conviction in the Senate removed from the job. Odds of that are zero. | 1 |
(Normally I change the term “anti-Semite” when including this quote from Sartre, but for Ms Space Lasers, it fits, so I’ll leave it.). | Oh yeah. It sticks out that they never, EVER refer to them as anti fascist and I’d wager good money that a large portion of the base doesn’t know what antifa is short for. | 1 |
In most federal districts, there are a handful of judges sitting, and when a case gets filed and hits the docket, it gets automatically and more importantly randomly assigned to one of the sitting judges within that district. | Shouldn't be allowed to preside over a case involving anyone who nominated or confirmed you, and judges should be assigned at random from a pool of all available judges without conflicts of interest. | 1 |
If you're still on single pane windows it's worth upgrading, but the improvement from double to triple pane is not big enough to justify the cost usually. At least not compared to other insulation measures. | Replacing your old windows without also improving your home's insulation is a recipe for mold problems. The windows should be the coldest point in the room, otherwise the moisture will cling to the walls. | 1 |
Heres a fact check with some sources you can read. In a case where some tied Biden to saying the Travel bans xenophobic, it was actually confused, as he called Trump Xenophobic the same day the bans were announced. If you can find anyone significant calling the covid travel bans themselves racist however, Id be more than happy to look at them. | Do keep in mind though, that if the common consensus is that Liberals wanted everyone locked in at home, they would've supported travel bans. | 0 |
Also, last I checked, Russia's overall standard of living is a bit higher than Iran's, which is definitely a factor in both why so many Russians are apathetic and why they aren't exactly rushing in to die for Putin and his yachts, palaces and oligarchs. They have to be forced to do it instead. Apathy, not support, is the dominant feeling in Russia. | A lot of the Western misconceptions about Russia like the one you mentioned are exactly what fuel Putin's murderous and illegitimate regime. | 0 |
When you’ve got the momentum and advantage it’s not best practice to let the competition dictate the game. I’m disappointed that I have to describe US politics this way, it’s sickening. | I'm not saying he hasn't done good as well, just that Democrats have become a very pro-corporate party and it's disappointing. | 1 |
The West keeps the Ukrainian military supplied. The PEOPLE keep it functioning. If this weren't so, why would Put in be shelling the people over military targets? According to your 'logic' he wouldn't. | A tip: when you think you know something the whole world seemingly doesn't, it's usually because it's such a bad idea it was ruled out on day 1. | 0 |
I hate how much I’ve seen the 4x10 get talked about. No amount of extra day off is going to make me any more productive when working a 10-hour day. | In the UK a full time work week is a minimum of 35 hours, and if you worked 9-5 Monday to Friday it would be 7 hours a day plus an hour unpaid break. | 1 |
what evidence you have of that? Sinema and Manchin have long been on the record against filibuster reform, you think Schumer just snaps his fingers and they flip? | 2016-2020 he was president and nearly broke our democracy. these last two years he's not and the DOJ and various states are gunning for him. Our democracy still hasn't healed and it definitely isn't going to be repaired until he is held to account. | 0 |
Assuming prescriptive linguistics, we can’t disagree on if a given action, carried out with a given intent, was genocide. | “In the present Convention, genocide means any of the following acts committed with intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnical, racial or religious group, as such: | 0 |
And although it is arguable if the obama era regulation would have affected this particular train (assuming that the railway company wasn't going around the rules by reclassifing the train to other types). Obama's regulation only got so far as calling for an investigation into the costs/benefits. That investigation was done by Trump administration and was latter found to be lacking quite substantially. | Overall it probs would have been better, also in this case, if the train was equipped with better braking systems. It wouldn't have prevented the derailing, but it could have limited the impact. And in general it is a great example of why deregulation is only wise from a short term, quick win for shareholder point of view. But never good for the general public, as they will not be the ones to enjoy the lowered costs of operating of the railways. | 0 |
That's the downtown Orlando district though. Val Demings won it with 65% and then 64% of the vote. Maxwell just got 59%. | It's Texas. Neither liberals or progressives are going to flip it anytime soon. I know reddit hates "moderates" but they are the only ones with a chance in solidly red states. You really think Texas is going to flip for a AOC like candidate? | 0 |
An arm of the U.S. Department of Transportation oversees pipeline safety and permitted TC Energy to have greater pressures on the Keystone system because the company used pipe made from better steel. | 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. | 1 |
What makes artillery scarier than air strikes is that if you have no way to take out the guns, they can literally lay fire down 24/7. Whereas a plane has to fly back to re-arm / refuel and guided bombs are expensive vs an artillery shell, some gun powder and a bunch of bored Marines. | Regarding rate of fire, the British would probably buy slower firing howitzers before they decide to buy more ammo. | 1 |
The trigger is still being “pulled” once for every bullet. The only way this becomes untrue is from some technical failure resulting in two bullets feeding at the same time, which would result in a misfire. The trigger as part of the gun’s firing mechanism has to reset to a certain position and be “pulled” again before another bullet can be fired. | Edit for clarification: automatic firearms are those capable of firing multiple bullets with a single trigger pull. Semiautomatic firearms fire one bullet per trigger pull. Bump stocks only increase the rate at which the trigger is pulled, therefore it’s still 1 bullet per trigger pull, and technically not a modification into “automatic.”. | 0 |
Perhaps the real question is why aren’t we all outraged at our classification system allowing such poor handling of sensitive material? | Some of us have been outrage for a while about how over used the classification system has been abused unnecessarily, lump it all in and maybe we get some improvement. | 1 |
Thus, nuclear weapons will be used, without a doubt, Israel will nuke Iran and won't even think twice if it means preventing them from achieving a nuclear weapon, there is quite literally nothing worse than a nuclear Iran for Israel. | Israel knows it doesn't have strategic bombers, it's pretty much guaranteed it developed a nuclear penetrator bomb to compensate for it. | 0 |
Imagine if the US did, in fact, say they will carry out this attack if Russia doesn't remove Putin from office in the interest of global stability. Russia would be like, "Damn, maybe we should have him removed.". | Yep. The Ukraine defense extortion and Hunter Biden stuff kinda came out of nowhere in the Trump drama, and it's only in retrospect that it was in some sense telegraphing Russia's intent. It was a lingering question that has an answer now - Russia was counting on Trump to hamstring Ukraine's defenses for the upcoming invasion. | 1 |
no matter what you think about IDF, i think anyone can agree that putting rocket launchers near a school shows a horrifying disregard for lives of children. | That aside, I think any rational human can agree that placing rockets IN AND AROUND SCHOOLS is morally reprehensible and suggests that they value killing israeli's more than they do protecting their own children. | 0 |
At one point last year Ukraine even accused Hungary of knowing about the Russian invasion beforehand, and that they would have offered Carpathian Ruthenia had Hungary cooperated. | Orbán said that the West does not understand that in Ukraine, time is on the side of Russia, which is a powerful country and can mobilise a huge army, but Ukraine cannot. | 1 |
Nah, Russian and Ukraine is war between two actual armies, with Russia deciding that war crimes are an acceptable strategy for attrition. | Secondly, do you know how many Ukrainians have been killed by Russian rockets and soldiers? Turkey’s response has been to increase trade with Russia and extort countries trying to join NATO for political gain. Turkey has no problem watching other people get bombed and in fact tries to use that as leverage to bully Sweden and Finland - the contempt held for turkey in the west is a grave it has dug itself. | 1 |
If the trigger moves back and forth, it is not a single function. The rate of fire does not matter. Whether you think "the purpose of the definition seems to be" different from what the text is, does not matter. If the law is defective, it is up to Congress to change it. Through legitimate democratic process. Not by fiat. | No it does not. Per federal law a machine gun is a firearm that can fire more than one cartridge per action of the trigger. A bump stock does not make that possible, it just uses the recoil of the gun to help the shooter pull the trigger faster than normal. A firearm with a bump stick still requires one action of the trigger even if it looks like it's firing very fast. | 1 |
I really wish we would just make "state rights" be about letting the popular vote decide legislative shit. Marijuana is a state issue, let people in the state vote for it. Women's health is a state issue, let the people in the state vote for it. I'm tired of gerrymandered assholes in my state decide for things that the majority of people don't want regardless of party. I just want Texas to do what other governors are letting their states vote on. But then Texas would have to admit the only reason they win is that our low voter turnout, especially in cities and among young people, are the only thing keeping reds in charge. Let's see if people care if you actually let us vote for something that affects us. | Not as easy as you think since lots and lots of states have Republicans in power that KNOW that any meaningful ballot question will drive voter turnout and hurt them. | 1 |
If you look at the tax rolls, half the AirBnBs in Austin have homestead, “primary residence”exemptions. | No, but we have property taxes that make up for not having a state income tax. Part of figuring the property taxes is if your home is your primary residence then you get a homestead exemption which cuts your taxes by like 20-30% (Maybe more, don’t remember off the top of my head). I think our taxes are about $12k per year and with homestead exemption they are around $9k. | 1 |
I would recommend the whole article, which goes on to describe and analyze the unique challenge faced by being a politician, which is a 'front stage job' who suffers from depression, which is a 'back stage' illness. The Atlantic has a metered paywall; if this synopsis interests you, I'd recommend using one of your monthly clicks. | I suffer from a mental illness, and not one of the more 'media friendly' mental health diagnoses such as depression or anxiety. I'm well treated for it (schizoaffective disorder), as you can hopefully tell from my relative coherence. I'm posting this article partially because of an interaction I had the other day in this subreddit, wherein a commenter joked that C-SPAN callers were undiagnosed schizophrenics, and I was downvoted for asking them not to make a punchline out of the illness. I'm sharing this article and this story to hopefully help humanize those with even the less savory mental health issues, and maybe give someone pause before the next time they joke about "schizos", call Fetterman a 'vegetable', rush to attribute violence to mental health issues, or in some other way do their part to ensure that those with serious mental health issues and/or disabilities do not take part in public life. | 0 |
This has HUGE implications. It means EU countries will set a precedent to further restrict trade and increase sanctions on Russia. But what's even bigger is it also applies secondary sanctions to countries and other entities that trade with Russia. This is very good. It forces the rest of the world to play along with efforts to punish the aggressor. | Parliaments in several of Ukraine's most ardent EU backers - Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania and Poland - have declared that they consider Russia under President Vladimir Putin to be a state sponsor of terrorism. | 0 |
I think you should be able to pick any public school for starters. There shouldn't be boundaries. Furthermore, I think that you should be able to take the funds that would be spent on you in the public school and use it as a voucher to help pay for a private school. Since this original post involves Florida I think they are a pretty good state in this regards. So here is a look at the school choice options they have. | You are allowed to pick your schools. You can go to private ones, homeschool, join a homeschool pod with other families, or move to a different school district. You already have the options you say you want but you’re still supporting taking away options from others. I don’t try to force my kids’ school to change how they teach because I trust the education they’re getting there, I know their teachers, and I’m actually involved in my kids’ lives to know what they’re doing. . | 1 |
You couldn’t be more wrong. Governments all over the world are setting rules and restrictions, from authoritarian ones right through to fully democratic govts. Land in Shanghai and try and find google on your browser - or just about any western news website. National controls on web content is common. In fact your own US Govt commonly forced other countries to block content over I.P. Issues. And I stand by my view that a completely unregulated internet was always a masturbatory delusion of the simple minded. | If it makes you feel better, your response doesn’t seem too rant-ish to me. Your views are strongly held. I will argue though that censorship of extreme material on the internet is a much smaller threat to your freedoms in America than 1) highly gerrymandered electorates, 2) rules that make it extremely hard to vote, 3) extremists storming the congressional building, 4) Rupert Murdoch and his media outlets showing extreme bias, 5) billionaires ploughing huge amounts of money into politics. | 0 |
Send enough armor and weapons to Ukraine and let them kick those fuckin Russians back to Moscow so they can topple Putin and get it over with. | I think you're missing the point that Poland isn't submitting an application in the first place, and this is the problem.. not that Germany can't approve it. | 0 |
he cannot possibly fulfill the duties I imagine even a USA house speaker would have against tradition and process. | That could work, with a condition: she would be a nonvoting Speaker of course, no longer being an elected US Representative. The condition would be taking it as a non political position, neutral to both 'sides', with responsibility for ensuring institutional integrity and transparency of the House. | 1 |
I'm amazed restaurants still take reservations. As a former service worker I totally agree with charging no shows. It's like the airline, you book a flight and pay, if you don't show it's your loss. This applies to restaurants, they hold your table and tell others to wait, it costs the restaurant money to have empty seats with paying customers waiting at the door. | If you were the table that stayed too long and caused someone else's table reservation to not be available on time, would you pay them? It gets tricky. It's hard as a restaurant to handle the tables that stay for 3-4 hours, especially when not ordering while doing it. It's not ok, but it's also not ok to ask them to leave. That's usually why reservations aren't ready. | 1 |
Also, given that this race could give Democrats an edge in the Senate, GOP Georgia voters may be more energized about making sure that doesn’t happen and that’s a big driver too. | On one hand, some Georgia GOP voters have said they like Walker because they know him from his football days, they think he’d be a fresh face in the Senate. People often like political outsiders who don't have conventional experience. But - there is indication that republicans in Georgia don’t want to see another seat go to dems and that is likely a significant part of his support base too. | 0 |
Let's also not forget that there are years like 2017 when 60 people were killed and over 400 wounded in just a single shooting with AR pattern rifles. | 36 isn’t bad when you think of the thousands who die every year in the states due to firearms, which includes AR15 deaths. | 1 |
Russia has exactly two strategies in their playbook for offensive action to take cities: Bullshit and Bombardment. | 4) russia cries how victimized they are, then launches theor "surprise attack" anyway. They die like dogs because Ukrainians aren't stupid. | 1 |
The Afghani Taliban had to soften its stance on some things to be considered a viable national government to Afghanistan that would actually be recognized and traded with. A version that can never hope to aspire to anything but terrorism does not need to do that. | Not really accurate. The US did supply arms to anti-Soviet rebels in Afghanistan but those rebels' values reflected what a lot of the population already felt. A large supply of high-tech weapons can only go so far without soldiers willing to carry them. Also, a lot of those soldiers came from Islamic nations outside of Afghanistan. Also, China also helped the Afghan rebels as by that time they had fallen out with Soviets. In sum, to say the US is uniquely responsible for the Taliban is fallacy. | 0 |
And since the payment pause is universal it's harder to justify politically, plenty of 6 figure folks benefit from the pause. | I think the bigger problem with a extended pause is the revenue hit, I would expect a GOP house to cut funding to social services until payment are restarted. | 0 |
The only path to peace between Israel and Palestine is if they both stop trying to kill each other. Supporting Palestine shouldn't mean condoning their worst actions, but all too often it does. | You keep saying what support of Palestine shouldn't be. But you don't seem to be offering actual alternatives beyond vague platitudes of building them up. | 1 |
Let's be real, Ukraine was one of the most politically corrupt nations in Europe. Likely still is. And that's not going to change "swiftly" no matter what happens. | Also this does NOT mean it was acceptable for Russia to invade them, or that other nations should not assist Ukraine. | 0 |
I think it means ONLY 5 GOP votes are needed with the cooperation of the Dem's to elect the leader. That puts a lot of power in some GOP moderates if they want. In the article, a Dem has mentioned he'd never do that, so that means +1 GOP vote needed. I think it's easier to convince Dem's to (1) vote for a moderate GOP over (2) let Kevin agree to a bunch of concessions that are bad for everyone. | Now, if it's a necessary part of the deal (eg, some moderate GOP Reps don't want to vote for the same Speaker as, say, AOC), that's a different story. If that's the case, then, by all means, do what needs to be done. But barring something like that, I think it's a stronger move to have a unified Democratic Party in a coalition with however many reasonable Republicans can be corralled. The larger the majority electing the Speaker, the better. You get unity among Democrats, bipartisanship, "Republicans in disarray," and can say both the progressives and GOP moderates put country above party. And it makes it unique in the GOP that they're uncompromising and would rather lose power and be in the minority than give an inch, which, hopefully, will give their voters pause and encourage them to nominate more moderate candidates next cycle. | 1 |
I'm not sure what point you're arguing here. Are you simply saying that GOP voters must be rubes with no understanding of what they're supporting or....? | If you’re saying the GOP is lying, I generally agree. If you mean all people who vote Republican are lying about wanting less government and are actually authoritarian fascists, you’re vastly oversimplifying it. | 1 |
Are you an idiot? You really think the asswat Modi who supports the fascist Putin really needs to make weapons? Try reading about what Putin is doing in Ukraine before you decide if he needs to have any help him making more weapons. | Google " How Ukraine became a testbed for western weapons" by CNN. I hope CNN is not a Russian media. | 1 |
I think that's reductive, but that's beside the point. I'm saying that there was a way that Twitter could have pivoted their advertiser-funded approach toward a more Twitch-like model, but Musk has bungled it. | If there was a way to slip that banana peel under Musk, what would you do to end the tweet storms (and Twitter) masquerading as journalism? | 1 |
Ironically, calling in the Guard probably DECREASED the risk of violence, due to how utterly borked police departments are these days, especially in Georgia.. | I'm WHITE and worked as an EMT, and I don't even feel safe around many Police these days (I worked in a major city, and could trust the police there- bit the police in the exurbs are hyper-aggressive Good Old Boys...) They tend to be super militaristic, with a constant siege mentality outside the very best departments and a few good apples here and there... | 0 |
Ukraine is doing this to revive their own language in their country, I don’t really see the problem in any of this. | I'm pro Ukraine, but I don't feel personally threatened by Russia so I'm less biased then most people here. If any other country did this, redditors would be all up in arms, rightfully so, but because it's ukraine doing it to its Russian speaking citizens, then it's OK. | 1 |
Like any international treaty, the NATO Treaty can be changed by unanimous agreement of the parties. Accepting a new European member already requires the same unanimous agreement. And in practically all countries, the internal mechanism (parliamentary vote, etc.) is identical for a treaty change decision and a "invite new NATO member" decision. | When NATO changes the charter it was founded in. Under article 10 it limits to only nations with land in Europe joining after its founding (Canada and Us are exception). | 1 |
All these people retained their power and privilege, and in some cases (Butina) expanded it. That is why there is a general sense that nothing came out of the Mueller investigation. | Can we PLEASE stop pretending that nothing came out of the Mueller report? This is Republican propaganda. | 1 |
Ok. You’re assuming that there is no difference between varying degrees and types of attention. You’re not considering how international relations with China could be leveraged. You’re also assuming that the current sanctions (attention we are paying to them) are not hurting their country and slowing down their production of nuclear arms. You’re assuming they wouldn’t just ratchet up their attention seeking behavior until we HAVE to pay attention to them based on probability of accidental mass casualty incidents. You’re assuming he wouldn’t exploit his people even more if we didn’t condemn and take actions against them. | How am I assuming he wouldn't exploit his people more? How does us paying attention to him help stop that? Are you advocating for some kind of military intervention to prevent that? | 1 |
Well, there's the , , , , ... but of course none of this was even relatively unknown for anyone following the news, you just consider the russians innocent because you sympathise with them. | You really should look more into what's happening in Ukraine before excusing the actions of the Russians. | 1 |
I never realized how connected Russian and Ukrainian lives were, if you got rid of the Ukrainian and Russian words from your sentence you could think it's a civil war. | Unfortunately the same can probably be said for Ukraine, the only difference is that Russia brought it on themselves, Ukraine just got attacked for no reason. | 1 |
When the state continually elects and re-elects politicians whose party platform is to erode and dismantle the public institutions that provide services to better citizens, what the fuck did they think they were going to get? | I have family and friends in Texas and it's ridiculous how a state that's been completely gutted by GOP control over the past few decades has convinced the voters there that all their problems are because of powerless Democrats and California somehow. Even the left leaning people I know shrug off their state's rising prices, crumbling infrastructure, and general incompetency with 'It's because of all the Californians moving here...' as if CA had some natural disaster and is now completely empty. It's the failure of your own Republican government. | 1 |
So they probably aren't the type of people to buy brand new cars, so they won't be directly affected by the mandate, even when it hits 100% new EV sales in 2035. | For sure, but the people who can't afford $25k for a car generally aren't the ones buying new cars in the first place (regardless of whether it's gas or EV), so the mandate doesn't affect them. Instead they typically buy used cars (for cheaper). | 0 |
The problem is it’s challenging to pull nearly 200 people away from voting in line with party leadership for McCarthy, unless McCarthy himself steps aside. At the moment he looks unwilling to do so. | My opinion - we’re more likely to just see republicans fall in line and vote for McCarthy as he cuts more deals with the holdouts. But who knows! Anything could happen tonight 🤷♂️. | 0 |
Same, got Covid during Omicron. Was boosted. Though, and this is very important, COVID-19 symptoms were much more severe and deadly pre vaccines/during OG Covid. | The vaccine doesn’t stop you from getting it, but it probably make the illness more mild when you do catch Covid. | 1 |
It was that ad that turned me away. I can not vote for some one that tucks a shirt in jeans w/ no belt. It’s a generational voting issue in my household…. | I think people are generally voting for policies more so than for people. Lots of people believe that democrat policies have made things worse in the last two years. In a lot of respects this midterm election is a referendum on those policies. Walker, or whomever, as part of a republican majority, will be able to help push different policies. Maybe that's what you mean by "rooting for the team." But pretty simple... Republicans want fewer dems in position to push policies that Republicans disagree with and think are making things worse in so many ways. Dems do the same thing when they vote for Omar or Feinstein or others who are crazy or incompetent. | 1 |
You dont need a long range AA missile to intercept a long range cruise missile. S-300 has just 100 or 200 km of range, more than enough to intercept low flying cruise missiles. | No fly zone would be for planes ofc but for rockets and missiles too. Maybe I am wrong to expect a jet to intercept a missile or rocket inbound from russia. | 1 |
No, they just say a partial receiver is a partial receiver. The fact it's a receiver - a purpose built product to create to gun is the focus. | Please point out in the Federal Code where it says anything that gets near a gun is a firearm if it is "purpose built". Congress did not at any time give the President sweeping authority to write regulations of his own accord because he just feels so strongly about it. | 1 |
That was the basis of the first peace deal between Jordan and Israel. Jordan was the first Arab country to make a peace with Israel. Egypt later followed, but there has been no peace deal with Syria since the independence of Israel. | Jordan and Israel signed a peace agreement in the mid 1990's, with president Clinton aiding the negotiations. | 1 |
If they don't call them a bottom they just straight up say someone sucks dicks or has sex with men because being gay or a woman is the ultimate dehumanizing thing for conservative men it seems. | Crazy (but also not that surprising) to see conservative women use such rabidly misogynistic language to attack a (presumably) gay man. | 1 |
I also don't agree with the framing or implication that both Russia and Ukraine are equally as untrustworthy, or that information from either side should be dismissed equally as false propaganda just because they are on opposing sides of a war. | So, unfortunately I think Russian patriotism and propaganda will be stronger than any audible dissention, left in the country. | 1 |
Like, this is flooring the hell out of me. Russia’s superpower/great power status has seemingly evaporated. | My personal question here is how did almost all Western military analysts completely overestimate Russian strenh and capability? | 0 |
The Republican party had no choice but to nominate him, that's how primaries work. No important Republican politician wanted him, but the Republican VOTERS wanted him. The problem isn't a few creeps like McConnell or Cruz, it's the entire Republican electorate. | After your voters ALL said they want him, you're going to turn around and say "no, vote for Gary Johnson instead?" That's the short road to political irrelevance. And if a politician cares about anything, it's power and relevance. | 0 |
Germany has actually done a lot, but I understand your sentiment. Germany is holding up deliveries of Leopard 2 tanks and they've been unable to explain why. | And not to detract from Polands amazing work, but Lithuania, Latvia, and Estonia have all given so much for their relative size and wealth. Truly amazing people. | 0 |
No idea what a LPR Is but if passports are being automated, that’s great. The Same level of security is being applied then as if they had obtained a passport. A drivers license and federal ID are different things. Drivers licenses can be Real ID compliant or not. There are 2 versions. | If you think so. However, terrorists are constantly looking for ways to attack America. There is a balance between freedom and security. What’s the harm in requiring people to meet certain requirements to get a federal ID when that ID is used for federally controlled forms of mass transportation when mass transportation has been used for successful terrorist attacks in the past? It’s already required to have a passport for international travel. Why is that required? A passport is really all about security. | 0 |
Sure, but that's just traditionally. That doesn't mean they have to. Pelosi didn't get all the votes in her caucus either, but she had the power and leadership ability to create reasonable deals and get people to vote present instead of for someone else. McCarthy is in this position because he's a bad leader to his caucus. His caucus may be actually unmanageable, but that's what people voted for and that's what McCarthy enabled. | There’s a reason that even if McCarthy gives them everything and gets their vote he can’t win, because others may not be willing to destroy themselves so McCarthy can be speaker. | 1 |
Beyond how the heck do these companies still manage to compete with such poor labor utilization, how are people not bored out of their minds just sitting there all the time? | I'm really shocked at how people apparently sit around at work so much and companies just... let them get away with it to the point that losing 20% of the labor hours for the week has minimal effect. | 0 |
Are... are you serious? You're claiming guns never break? Never get broken? Don't rust? Firing pins don't get stuck? | This conversation is so incredibly generic I'm shocked you'd even try to estimate a time frame. I'm well aware how many guns exist. I'm also aware what a "first step" means. | 0 |
It won’t affect the case against Trump & Co as the special grand jury doesn’t issue indictments, only recommendations which the DA has to then decide. | I’m sure as soon as she found out which case she would be sitting on, she got dollar signs in her eyes. | 0 |
You're spot on. In recent years, the US sold out their Kurdish allies and left its NATO and Afghan allies in chaos with the manner of its withdrawal in Afghanistan. | Transactional military actions have been a staple of American politics since the Korean War, lofty rhetoric and public diplomacy notwithstanding. | 0 |
Literally only people who encourage and defend nazis or who support white supremacist, fascist politicians and policies. Saying they accuse everyone of it to try to trick people into disregarding accurate accusations doesn't work because most people aren't as stupid as the nazis who try it. | Do you pretend to be stupid enough to not know about nazis because you think a third party reading this will be stupid enough to believe you? I assure you, no one is as stupid as people who defend nazis. | 0 |
Most people consider spending synonymous with budget, and the discretionary budget is only a fraction of the federal budget. | Discretionary Budget is what gets voted on and includes military, education, transportation, science, CDC, NASA, etc. | 1 |
Some of the land was given to us by the rulers of it (British). Other parts were won in wars the Arab population declared on us, trying to destroy our country. Calling it "Stolen" is a complete lie. | About the WB, I agree the settlements need to stop. But it would never happen when Palestinians don't even acknowledge Israel's right to exist and only operate with violence against innocent men, women and children. | 0 |
While I agree, I don't think this is the best justification. The better one is: As long as russia is killing Ukrainian athletes, russian athletes should not be allowed to compete. | I sympathize with the Russian athletes, but 2014 Sochi taught us how involved the Russian state is in athletes lives. Russia’s doping apparatus was unbelievable. Check the Icarus documentary. While many Russian athletes are independent spirits, Sochi taught us that the Russian State frequently uses athletes to cheat at the Olympics. | 1 |
Yes better now. But that can backslide quickly. I mean just look at Roe v Wade. Something people were so certain was just inherently safe gone in a moment. Decades of progress rolled back. | Yea a lot of people get discouraged but there’s been a ton of progress made in the last ten years. A big part of it is people are more comfortable coming out so now everyone has a gay friend son niece nephew brother aunt uncle etc. Even conservatives poll slightly in favor of gay marriage now. | 1 |
Yes but the antisemitism "about Israel" in the survey is for the most part not actually about Israel. For example saying American Jews are more loyal to Israel than America is antisemitism. Saying that Israel is not criticized in the media because of the Jews that control the media is antisemitic. Saying Israel treats Palestinians the same way the Nazis treated the Jews is antisemitism. | So often not supporting Israel is wrapped into antisemitism. There are plenty of countries that I don’t support and would feel inclined to spend time with people who support those nations. | 1 |
You're literally saying she's a victim and blaming her rather than the actual cause of her being one. | Blaming someone, and saying that someone is not without blame are two very different things. And I've been saying that she's not without blame since the beginning. | 1 |
Also the hope that codifying Equal Marriage dispels any threat against it abjectly fails to recognize that the law, once codified, can be struck down by the Court if it’s deemed to not be a Power granted the Legislature in the first place. | The real criticism you can levy against dems is that they are passing a half-measure bill, if Obergefell gets overturned this bill will still allow states to ban same sex marriage, what it stops is the federal government from not recognizing gay marriage (essentially repealing DOMA) and says that if a state performs gay marriage others states have to recognize those as marriages. I understand that was needed to get it passed but I think more could have been done. | 1 |
1. Members of national assemblies and national governments (cabinet members/ministers) of sovereign states as well as current heads of states. | - Members of national assemblies and national governments (cabinet members/ministers) of sovereign states as well as current heads of state. | 1 |
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