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The new 233 page rule was written by the Department of Justice, not the ATF, at the instruction of the President, to make gun regulation conform to the President's personal preferences.
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The new, less corrupt President promised not to further politicize regulatory agencies, but he made it all the way to February before he tried to push a professional gun control lobbyist in as Director of the ATF. And he made it til April before he decided to write a blizzard of gun regulations from the Resolute Desk. Regulations that can put people in federal prison for ten years who were obeying the law.
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Or are you suggesting that companies have only now been able to raise prices for some unknown reason.
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What is happening right now is that some companies are arbitrarily raising their prices in an attempt to make more profit. This is causing a ripple effect where other companies reliant on these first companies are also raising heir prices, and so on and so forth.
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Yyyyup. Wagner group is named after hitler's favorite composer. That's not a coincidence, that's actually why they're calling themselves wagner.
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You can look up an old photo of a wagner top dog with swastika tattoos. Along with another photo of him standing next to putin at some formal event.
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Ask your coworker if he supports Kanye’s statements on nazis and hitler. Preferably in a group setting.
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“Yesterday, you told me you really liked Kanye’s positions. He just said he likes Nazis and Hitler, what are your thoughts on that? What made you back a Nazi?”.
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Does the Kremlin not understand that making threats is either going to hurt their credibility or it's going to have the opposite effect? They're basically arriving at the same levels of absurdity as North Korea, threatening to drop a nuke from one day to the next, as if they thought this was the only reason they haven't been invaded until now..
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I 100% agree with this. I don't mean it should only be a threat, but I also don't mean to say Poland should just fully invade. Treat it like a negative peace. Act as if Russia might invade at any point, so you station troops at the border, you attack trade ships, you quadruple support for Ukraine.
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Yup! fast and good sensors means you can identify the target from far out, hit it once you're there, and be gone before air defenses even get a chance to start shooting. A-10s are comparatively as slow as the plane flying the banners at the beach in the summer lol.
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Essentially, a baby B-1 bomber used for high speed tactical bombing missions. In Desert Storm it used its ground scanning radar to find targets way out ahead of it, its laser designator to paint at targeting beam on them, and dropped laser guided bombs to destroy roughly 28% of all Iraqi armor lost in the war.
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So being antisemitic is still not the same as having anti-Muslim bias, though both are discriminatory of course.
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Like the poster said above me, I’d go call it “anti-Muslim bias.” There should be a distinction between being against the religion itself and being against the people who just happen to follow it. This is coming from someone who was born into the faith and has left.
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Its the biggest source of corruption and nepotism in the region (see Petrobras, Pemex, Ecopetrol,etc...).
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The difference is nationalizing it leads to corruption of nations and bad nation states. The government isn't holding oil accountable if the government owns oil...this is real life where there's actual bad people.
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Unfortunately, black people have carried the stereotype of being more likely to commit a crime for quite some time.
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It’ll take more than under-reporting crimes committed by black people for that stereotype to go away.
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That sums it up pretty well - there is also Iran's nuclear program, which Israel has attacked before ( with the help of the USA - ).
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Israel has attacked Iran before in response to this activity, and Iran isn't really in a place to declare war on Israel and all of its Allies, so the cycle continues.
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There is no laser from space that can deliver enough power that will result in an underwater detection of a submarine.
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This is the Chinese testing satellites that can detect submarines. Google "lasers detect submarines" and a number of articles pop up about their research going years back and some about their satellite with this capability. I think they are less concerned with aircraft carriers due to anti ship cruise missiles/ballistic missiles potentially being able to overwhelm their air defenses and sink them.
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Temporary visas is different from many just coming across, many are underage. And if a state relies heavily on slave labor, that state needs a reckoning for undermining American workers.
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I live in a state that heavily relies on undocumented workers. Construction, tourism, hospitality/service, landscaping, agriculture. Our economy would not survive without them.
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So why is India pointing the finger at Pakistan and calling it a backstabber if Pakistan are only engaging in their own self-interest as India does? You can’t have it both ways if you wish to be taken seriously.
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When India is invaded, will people remember India’s indifference to Ukraine being invaded? Perhaps; perhaps not.
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They've accumulated so much money because of how cheap it is to borrow going back over a decade that they've literally run out of things to buy. So on to the next asset class: residential real estate.
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I'm thinking of it as they see the rental housing as a way to make money are and investing 1bn in it.
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"According to the Hindu outfit, students who believe in the Sanatan Hindu religion and culture are being forcefully asked to bring Christmas trees and dress up as Santa Claus.".
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I'm not saying that it's true. But if it is true, that's coercion. As a follower of Christ, I'm completely against anyone being forced to participate in Christmas that doesn't want to.
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Progressives need to start acting like the rising future leaders of America if they're ever to be accepted by the broader voting public or by the Democratic Party as such. No one should expect another political faction to just hand them their reigns.
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No, we don't need progressives to be handed anything. They need to take their place else they have little prospect of keeping it.
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That's one scenario but it's not happening right now. The smart move is to just say Ukraine now belong to US/Germany which make them NATO region right away. But no, his ego is too high for Ukraine and he want to keep fighting sacrificing millions of his people and future.
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It is better to support Ukraine against an unprovoked invasion and genocidal occupation. Allowing Russia to take what it wants is a dangerous and appeasing precedent. Russia can end this whenever they want by leaving Ukraine, yet it's somehow Ukraine's fault Russia is continuing to attack them?
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CA Dems aren't the left-most as conservative media makes it sound, and CA GOP have been going even more right in the last 10 years -- its not adding up to the voters.
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Arnold is GOP, but he's about the left most leaning GOP candidate you can think of. Even at the time he was elected, he was practically considered a RINO. The CA recall process is also a bit too easy to accomplish, and that year was filled with a wild amount of candidates.
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Well, I can't speak for everyone, but my country keeps 10k troops there fully armed and spooled up. If a fight comes, they will be there, and I don't see my country just hanging their battallions out to dry. They have air and ground assets, and I'm quite certain after watching this debacle that 10 battalions highly motivated and fully armed and supported by air assets would mop the floor with these russian battle groups. Once you throw the poles themselves in with their soldiers who are also highly trained and motivated..... russians stand little to no chance in that fight. Especially once an extra squadron or two of f22/F35 shows up escorting a handful of B series bombers..... good lawd. Just typing it out paints a picture of death and destruction of epic proportion.
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I believe that is probably the case. It's quite tiring watching them all play the trickle effect with these weapons. I really wish they would just start loading ships and let the Ukrainians get this party started. Start training a few battalions today, and let 'em eat once the shit finally makes it to theater.
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I am not really into conspiracy theories, but assuming Israeli Intelligence involvement isn't much of a stretch considering just their recent history of sabotaging the nuclear capabilities of unfriendly regimes in the region.
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Assassination of Aziz Asbar (August 5, 2018) - the alleged killing of senior Syrian scientist Aziz Asbar in Masyaf.
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Walloon is a separate language. It is a descendent from Langue d'Oil, so a cousin to French. But it isn't a dialect, and is not mutually intelligible. Walloons are the dominant French-speakers in Belgium, and have lost most of their Walloon.
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They speak dialects of French but you're right, the actual Wallonian languages are all pretty much extinct. Which as a Dutchy I'm a bit sad about, the low lands have such a huge diversity of dialects and languages and an entire group of those has just disappeared over the course of history.
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It's actually a broadening of the standard. McCarthy is suggesting expulsion and, since the Civil War, only two members have been expelled from the House, after being criminally convicted of crimes and refusing to resign. McCarthy is saying that Santos could be expelled based on the outcome of an Ethics Committee report. That's moving the goalposts from criminal conviction to a finding from the Ethics Committee, which is a much wider net.
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Ethics committee comes back and says "as we are not the executive we cannot determine whether or not laws are broken. That is for the DOJ to decide. We have concluded that Santos is going to vote lock step from here on our now that we have gathered this kompro... I mean, now that he's family".
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I guess no where in history battles were fought and won with no hidden agendas… everything is done at face value… u must be a high level strategist or chess player.
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Half their resources?… u mean use their outdated resources?… I haven’t seen them use any next gen tech… what better use could outdated weapons than to test an opponents defense.
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I’m a descendent of the last one accused and killed (a bit of confusion over her death we believe she was hung) in CT.
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Just pointing it out. They were not witches, they were women (and sometimes men) that pissed off the wrong people or had something someone else wanted at a crazy time in history and they were tortured and killed for it. There’s no one to apologize to because they died.
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The school was Upper Arlinon and I thought I read that during the latest remodel, they found more graves.
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Also the high school, was that the Upper Arlinon School district, or another one? With that one, they just exhumed the remains and buried them in a different cemetery with no markers.
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For the percentage of obese people who do not fall into that group, this drug would be appropriate. In other words, it shouldn't be used as a lifestyle drug.
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No. I do not think that obesity is necessarily the result of an underlying condition. Many obese people could address their weight through a permanent change in diet and regular exercise.
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I have a serious question. Trandgender people don’t feel comfortable using the bathroom that corresponds to their biological sex, so advocates say that they should be able to use the bathroom of their choice. If biological women don’t feel comfortable sharing the bathroom why are their concerns not valid? If anything why not make a third bathroom for trans students?
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Trans people want to use the bathroom of the gender they identify as. If they have not had gender reassignment surgery, then I also understand why woman would not want to have someone with a penis in the bathroom with them. Now I personally think it's silly because no one's looking at genitals in restrooms. But and I mean this is the nicest way possible, but why are the concerns of cis people discounted? Trans people don't want to use the restroom of their birth gender, because that makes them uncomfortable. But if cis people are uncomfortable with someone who still has the opposite genitalia in their bathroom they shouldn't be listened to as well?
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These days russian is practically useless due to ongoing Russian bullshit and Lithuania moving away from using russian language as secondary, the later began happening more than a decade ago.
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Lithuania began phasing out russian as a second language in final years of the first decade of 21st century.
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EU has literally zero jurisdiction when it comes to price controls in Croatia, there's no EU "economic ministry" either. There's ECB (european central bank), but neither them nor Croatian central bank can really do anything about shops gouging their customers. Both institutions done their job when it comes to the "big picture" of switching currencies, like agreeing on exchange rate, making sure there's enough physical cash in circulation, preparing banks for the switch, making sure prices are displayed in dual currencies (HRK and Euro in this case) etc...
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That said, shit like this happened in pretty much all countries that switched to Euro to various extent though, in some countries it was worse than others.
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Honestly, as much as I dislike Musk now due to his right wing nonsense, I do think that the monopoly power that Apple has over its app store is problematic.
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Either they have to allow other storefronts on their phones imo, or they shouldn’t charge apps for access.
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And that’s good, but take Hungary for an example, the nation has a fair share of problems and an increasingly authoritarian leader. They also get a lot of money from the EU, so life for the average person in Hungary is relatively good. That can breed complacency in the face of authoritarian governance, so as long as the people keep good living conditions they have no reason to dislike their leader even if Orban has a lot of stuff to dislike him for. I suppose my fear is that this dynamic could happen on Afghanistan. Although I admit this could also give India enough leverage over Afghanistan to curb their worst actions. But that’s my thought process of how even giving humanitarian aid could perpetuate the Taliban.
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So your saying the Taliban oppressing afghan people and allowing people to starve and sell their children is americas fault?
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4. Trump was the President when this alleged fraud occured. He nominated the heads of both the FBI & CIA. How are the Democrats the ones apparently holding such power over Facebook and Twitter?
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The reality is that none of the right wing claims of election hacking and fraud stand up to any logical investigation.
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What are your thoughts on Crimea seeking twice in the 90s to declare independence from Ukraine and Ukraine denying their independence? The intention was for Crimea to return to Russia at that point by way of Crimean self-determination.
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I think the real tricky question is what to do with the ethnic Russians who lived in Crimea before Russia's annexation. They were Ukrainian citizens and legally probably still are.
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Perhaps this helps you understand why Jews (both pro-Israel and pro-Palestine) tend to be somewhat alarmed and offended by any insinuation that organizations rooted in the Jewish community manipulate politicians.
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The problem is claiming any politician who supports Israel does so because they're being manipulated.
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This is about Russia wanting the Republicans to win in the midterms so that they win in 2024 which they view as the best outcome for less support to Ukraine in the long term, but really if you just go to r/ukraine and talk to anyone there, they would also confirm that this is what Russia wants.
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They have even stated what the goal is: to divide the United States and make everyone in the government eat eachother until democracy dies.
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“We are discussing with the management of Ukrenergo the placement of three power plant ships with a total capacity of 300 megawatts near Odesa.".
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Re. "Russia launches 'empty' missiles to wear out Ukrainian air defense" I can imagine this may prove useful to throw decoys into the bunch to increase the probability missiles with legitimate warheads get through, but... Warhead aside, the actual missiles themselves can't be cheap. Considering Russia's economy is in shambles while there is no sign of the world's funding of Ukraine not subsiding — I can't imagine this could possibly yield a net-positive for Russia, economically-speaking.
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"But in the past two years they've all entered the party together, and this is just the beginning of a 10-to-12-year time period where there's about 50% more people that are wanting these things than there were in the prior group.".
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Smead explained that in the U.S. there are an estimated 92 million millennials, primarily in the 27- to 42-year-old age bracket. "The last time we saw what we call 'wolverine inflation' — which is inflation that is hard for policymakers to stop — was when 75 million baby boomers had replaced 44 million silent generation people in the 1970s.".
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Yeah I think racist white people think all white people are racist. I can’t count the times a white person has just flippantly said something ridiculously offensive about another race in conversation. Family members or strangers, it doesn’t seem to make a difference. Any time I’ve called someone out on it there’s always a deflection. Oh I didn’t mean it like that, or no no they’re all like that it’s just a fact, or I’m not saying that just because they’re x. Like I’m the naive one. Ugh.
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Oof. I'm not a violent person either, especially toward anyone who says they like having firearms. But he had already been crass to the female bartender, and I had to speak up. Luckily, the owner of the business heard most of it, I walked away, and he kicked the dude out.
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I would also mention the clear big winner from a MIC perspective is actually South Korea. They moved to 3 exporter in the world this past year. Mostly via procurement contracts to modernize other nato countries arsenals while they ship aging / retired hardwear to Ukraine as write offs.
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As far as I am aware very little is being given to ukraine right off a production line / active procurement program. Therefore any money going back to defense corps should be from orders placed by Ukraine using their own defense budget, to some extent bolstered by US loans/grants.
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Wonder if they are hoping to spread it to the west in hopes of dividing and destabilizing, weaponizing a pandemic is 100% something I could see China doing, especially after their thinly veiled attempt at total domestic control with their "zero covid policy" failed.
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Just imagine, a Disconnected world in chaos, suffering from, worrying about, and debilitated by pandemics while china is free to do whatever it pleases without rousing any attention at all.
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Xi fancies himself a dragon, but he has turned the prospect of the Great Empire of China arising into "Xina: Super North Korea".
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Fairness Doctrine might have been the precursor, but that was temporally too far away for this incarnation to focus further on.
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I mean, while deforestation wasn't as big back when Lula first took office (in 2003) his first term saw drastic decrease in deforestation, which held for his second term and his sucessor's (Rousseff).
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When Lula went into power in 2003, he caught a way bigger yearly deforastation rate compared to Bolsonaro (21.800 km²), in his first mandate it was reduced by 34% and in his second mandate it was reduced by 51%. By the end of his second mandate, the deforastation rate was of 7.000 km², with a total reduction of 67,6%.
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I'll give them the benefit of the doubt and assume they've done some very extensive research on the exact cost to implement a dual currency system. But it sounds like a nightmare to me. Best of luck to 'em though, hope it goes better than the way of Argentina's own currency.
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If Brazil is trying to take advantage of Argentina why would they value their currency as high? They would do the opposite because they have more leverage.
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But then actual tank on tank combat is rare, most tanks get lost to infantry with AT weapons and Ukraine in particular is very infantry and artillery heavy. And the concept of -not a main battle tank- but an armored self-propelled gun (or what we would have called a light tank in earlier times before the US arbitrarily changed their terminology) is still very much a thing (see French AMX-10s or US Strkyers -at least in the 105mm gun variant- or the new US MPF program). Because most of the time you don't need the heavy tank that can pierce another heavy tank, but just a moderately armored big gun to attack fortified infantry positions and armored vehicles. In fact some of the older soviet "tanks" in use in Ukraine would also fall more into that category compared to modern MBTs. And the old Leopard-1A5s still run somewhat solid optics, thermals and stabilization (a lot of armies used and modernized them until the early 2000s, the fire control system used in the latest ones is based on the one developed for the Leopard-2...).
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On the positive side a meh tank is better than no tank and the Leopard 1A5, which is what has been stated will be sent, is equipped with dated but still effective thermal sights which will more than useful in Ukraine. How you use the tank is generally more important than stats on paper and the Russian's often terrible tactics have cost them tanks that on paper are vastly superior to what they're fighting in Ukraine.
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The airspace in Ukraine is contested at the moment, but giving Ukraine jets with solid air to air capability even more difficult for Russian aircraft to operate and will help with .
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Jets is going to be really difficult because of high training requirements to be useful in the way Ukraine wants. Russia has the fighters but still can't use them because their pilots simply aren't well trained enough to pull off SEAD/DEAD, so if they use them they just get obliterated by Ukrainian AA.
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Suprise mechanics is when I find extra fries in the bottom of my McDonald's bag. They where always part of the fries I got, but they are a nice suprise.to find anyway.
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If it crashes we might just go back to an age where actually good games are made to earn a profit instead of scummy practices.
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GOP are more desperate than they’ve ever been, because young voters do not need to be goaded into participating in elections, they are voting for their lives.
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…the problem is now climate change and abortion rights and the real threat of a fascist US has galvanized voters <30 to actually care about elections. The smoke and mirrors no longer work when a potential burning planet and lack of basic rights if the GOP have their way is enough to cut through to nonsensical “woke is bad” campaigning all the GOP muppets run with.
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India is still going to buy it all, even if it's "normal" price because others will charge more due to increased demand.
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India gains nothing long term, but if they'd take the short term lose we'd all be better off in the long run.
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The feds and provinces need to take drastic measures to ensure affordable housing as a first priority, then maybe unfuck healthcare right quick.
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There has been collective efforts across the board to shrink the younger generations access to wealth that you should probably look into further as I do not have the mental capacity to scream it into the void right now.
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He flew with and directed helicopters. I think he did have a guard with him apparently, but it was a role he could do without their direct interference I presume.
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Whilst at the time I think Harry wanted to have a purpose in his family. And the proper career for him was seen as the military. He probably felt then that going to Afghanistan was a way to get away and feel more normal. Just another soldier. But he still couldn't really escape it.
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DeSantis is absolutely fantastic and checks all the boxes: conservative, traditional, eloquent, disciplined, whip-smart.
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IrishJoe, so will Democrats. We are that polarized. If Republicans ran a war hero or Ivy League grad and Democrats ran Rosie O’Donnell or one of the Kardashians, you can still bet on a close election whose result would be uncertain.
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Not to mention the mass amount of destruction, horror and murder Israel does pretty much yearly in Gaza with impunity.
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Regarding Gaza, you seriously are trying to absolve Israel of all blame? How was Gaza before Hamas rose to power?
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It's hilarious at this point. I'd like to see the last 6 Republicans in the roll call suddenly decide to vote Jeffries, drop the mic, drop the curtain and we have the new Speaker .
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If Republicans get passed this speaker vote then they can finally get started on their agenda of doing nothing except endless hearings on Hunter Biden's dick pics.
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The soft Brexiteer (and there are plenty of them) won't admit to being 'stupid', but they will admit that they were lied to and deceived, and once they make that jump they'll take their revenge.
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In other words, blatant pandering to Brexiteers who've indicated they won't come back to Labour if their Brexit dream is remotely disagreed with.
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Most people either don't know or don't care about Elon's antics. This is a case of living in the reddit echo chamber. Need evidence? Tesla still can't manufacture cars fast enough to meet demand. Try ordering just about any model and you'll be on a 6-9 month waiting list.
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If you go to order a Model Y right now, you’ll get an estimate of 3 months before you can take delivery. That isn’t terrible, but it’s quite a wait. They always have a backlog. Tesla’s problem has always been regarding supply, not demand.
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The idea that these vouchers are going to give poor kids in failing institutions "school choice" to go across town to a private school is ridiculous.
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School vouchers literally transfer money from the poor kids to the rich kids. They are almost never enough to fully cover the tuition of a private school, so they only go to people who have excess funds to pay for private school in the first place.
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The ACA hasn't solved our healthcare problems, but I will always be thankful that John McCain voted against his party to preserve it.
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No, the position of the Democratic Party is to maintain the status quo and retain the ACA rather than some form of universal healthcare that would improve things vastly. Most people on this thread also want to toe the political line too.
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While I wish the parents would just take whatever blood they can get, would it not make more sense to just try to get unvaccinated blood in this scenario?
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"Sure, we'd like our baby to live, but not at the cost of having some antibodies against another disease. If that's the case, fuck it, we'll just try and have a healthy one next time.".
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“Musk frames the dispute with Apple as an issue over free speech and content moderation, and Republican politicians agree.”.
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Musk is trying to force Apple to remove the mobile Twitter app from the app store in order to give Republicans an excuse to attack “woke corporations” that are “censoring” free speech.
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What's right, though, is probably not to try to pass a regulation, which will then be immediately prevented from going into effect by court injunctions because Congress in 2015 explicitly required that this exact regulation be repealed.
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Legally he probably can't reinstate the old rule, because congress changed the law, which is why he wants congress to pass a new law allowing the rules so the supreme court won't throw it out, because he cares more about the rules actually ending up good, than simply sounding good for sound clips.
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If things keep going as they are, ukraine will retake their country. It isn't going smoothly but they already took back several bits of land lost in the shock of the initial invasion that Russia can't take back, and the Russians already lost more people than they can recover from.
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The best option would be total russian defeat and withdraw, along with restoration of the ukrainian borders. Otherwise the Russians would be emboldened to keep doing what they're doing to their neighbors, and that further justifies why they seek refuge within nato. The United States is completely justified in supporting this.
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Those who keep voting against McCarthy aren't voting against McCarthy, they're voting against Democracy. The House can't do business without a Speaker, they don't want the House to do business.
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Good for Biden since for the next two years he can label everything as crazy Republicans can't get a house speaker let alone comprise done. What do I know, though?
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. I also have worked outside in The rural west my entire life and always wear a big straw hat ( and long sleeves etc) .
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In the last few years these Fox fueled fools seem to have now co-opted the American flag and now cowboy hats are seen as a symbol of oppression by many .
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I really wish people would stop doing this. Even if they're just trying to be "funny." (DAE find no part of this amusing??).
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Yes. The fucking answer is yes. Do you live in America? Do you understand the concept of transparency? Did you not think we had the right to know what happened behind Iran Contra? Or, Watergate? Or White Water? Or January 6th? The Constitution demands transparency for the people. They are supposed to answer to us. Thats the way its written. Our leaders have been implicated in Epsteins crimes. We absolutely have the right to know. WTF? Dont tell me im not answering the question when you dont even understand the basic principle of the question you're asking.
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Note that NI as a whole voted against Brexit, but these radical Unionists were for - because they expected it to hurt Ireland more than them.
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This is a part of the reason why Northern Ireland overwhelmingly voted against Brexit. They knew that a hard border on the island of Ireland would lead to sectarian violence & terrorism (again).
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“Don’t let anyone convince you lower corporate tax rates benefit anyone but shareholders”, lower tax rates in previous years have resulted in higher tax revenue. That’s why I mentioned the Laffer Curve.
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There are curves to all these things. Every single change in something like tax rates or interest rates makes a difference in a macro sense. They are like supply/demand curves. A small change here has an effect there. Plus there are the decisions on where global corporations choose to set up shop to consider. It’s a big dynamic world out there. That’s the beauty of capitalism.
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I hear my fellow Americans HATING on Muslims. Like guys.... You don't hate the people, you hate the terrorists and the terrorist sponsoring governments. But the media would have you believe everyone in the middle east wants you dead.
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But looking to the point of the people above, even Russians living in the US seem to have the opinion that Ukrainians should be killed in mass and raped?
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Let me remind you Sweden had an arms embargo on Turkey while they were applying to a military alliance where co-defence is the main theme.
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The EU may have a mutual defense agreement, but the military response would likely be through NATO. There is no way that the EU could conduct a war without NATO involvement.
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So it seems like women don't have an issue when men are conscripted but once the men get benefits for something like that they see the benefits as a problem.
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In fact, they should be happy; women are entitled to the same benefits if they serve, and service is optional. It's the best of both worlds.
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Of course, a more likely "Trump Independent" scenario is that Trump forms a new MAGA party to run under, but isn't on the ballot in most states. Thus, he's a spoiler in a few states - leading to Democrat wins or races that were closer than they would have been without Trump in the race - but doesn't have an effect on other races.
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I don't think this would be likely. It would be more likely that an area that's 60% Republican normally goes 35% DeSantis (or whomever else is the Republican nominee), 25% Trump, 40% Democrat which leads to the Democrats winning races that they otherwise wouldn't have been able to win. Then, those electoral votes would go with the Democrat leading to a blowout victory by the Democrats.
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For me it’s the analytic nature. It really is just a meeting for an hr and a half but i still can never get over the fact that it happened. These men really decided the direct fate of millions and indirectly countless more. Even more appalling is how they were just numbers and it was approached in such a business like manner. The extermination of a people was debated over wine and cigarettes.
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Edit: since im getting a lot of comments about movies and what not I figured id link an interesting HBO movie from 2001 that is about the German Final Solution and how it was deliberated. It has a fantastic cast and was informative to say the least. Highly recommended for anyone interested in the subject.
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Hell, governments dont even understand things like levelized full system cost of electricity for generation and now they want to criminally charge for impacts ?!
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Umm. Where to start… developing nations have access to allot of tech and science that developed countries did not have which will allow developing nations to avoid rampant emissions dependence. Stop making excuses for their leaders. Everyone needs to do their part now or we and a hell of allot of what remains of nature will be gone soon.
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Yeah, there's a lot of attention being paid to the sheriff's office's attitude towards red flags, but you aren't going to keep guns out of people's hand for 2 years or more if the DA won't prosecute them for the related offense. Sure, the topics are related.
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Yeah, that is what I meant. It would extraordinary for an order barring his access to firearms to have been extended this long if a trial were not moving forward.
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P.S. I am from Turkey where I can openly declare my atheism and women can freely walk around without veils, where all legally recognized marriages are still only civil marriages, where it is still illegal for religion to be a basis for discrimination, where abortion is not illegal, where sharia has no effect at all, let alone over the civil code. Consider that Erdoğan had 20 YEARS to change this, but didn’t or couldn’t. Consider for a moment there is more to the story than what you’re privy to.
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That said, I am familiar with the sort of denial you refer to, unfortunately. Perhaps it is ingrained and that is exactly what I'm doing. Who knows? .
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People are brainwashed in to thinking NK are a bunch of crazy nutters out to destroy the world there just trying to protect them selfs. It has seen what the US likes to do and said fuck that shit that is not for us.
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To be safe its that simple. NK dont trust the US at all and that is well justified by the US track record.
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It plays into the bullshit stereotype that because gay men are attracted to men and only women are supposed to be attracted to men, gay men must therefore act like women because they're attracted to men.
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Not because being gay makes you effeminate but rather because being gay makes you more likely to reject toxic masculinity. A lot of what we consider "effeminate" (being in touch with/expressing your feelings, having female friends, caring about your appearance, liking your space to be tidy and well decorated etc) aren't actually female things at all, they're normal human things that are denied to men due to toxic masculinity.
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McConnell literally got burned as recently as 2021, Senate Republicans pulled the same shit and Democrats didn’t back down. McConnell ended up being forced to back down and even agreed to a one time temporary filibuster exemption for the debt ceiling so that way Democrats can raise it without a single Republican vote. When it comes to the debt ceiling Democrats have actually shown to have a backbone and more often than not the public sides with them.
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Even if the debt ceiling is first introduced and passed in the House first it can still get filibustered in the Senate, there’s no exemption to that. McConnell’s point was more so that any deal him and Democrats in the Senate strike will go nowhere in the House, that’s why he wants the House to start it because whatever the House passes has a better chance in passing in the Senate than vice versa.
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He is literally saying that this “fraud” doesn’t immediately terminate the clauses of the constitution but rather that it justifies doing so.
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Edit: Even if we were to give the benefit of the doubt and believe that he was misunderstood (saying that allowing the "fraud" essentially terminates the constitution) the rest of his post/defense shows he has no respect for the Constitution.
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All of these short doses of what can only be seen as alpha male championship level success…this is how he convinced a lot of people that he was no nonsense/tough skinned/straight to the point. It’s the equivalent of you or I only posting our best moments in social media, thus making others think we are crushing it.
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His base are more than happy to either be spoon fed headlines so they don’t have to hear the story, or the information they consume has to be so dramatically compelling that it turns into an episode of the xfiles.
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The propaganda my parents generation had to deal with in order to believe that stuff was insane. Constant commercials and news reports about how they are helping people in their own country and other countries. Meanwhile, it was just a distraction by right wing politicians from the real problems.
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In a culture where prostitution is normalized like Indonesia, most strait people will either not be reported or the police will not arrest those that are. However, the minority groups like gays are more likely to be reported and more likely for the police to act because they are viewed as different. Same with women because it is a Muslim country and men continue to hold most of the power. My guess is that reporting by “spouse or family” only applies when a woman cheats but not a man.
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California's laws won't stop anything with federal support because it doesn't address the fundamental issues of why people are going on shooting sprees.
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See the problem is, California laws alone are incapable of punishing rural firearms enthusiasts in Wyoming for the crimes of inner city gangbangers in LA. Takes a federal level infringement to pull that off. People shouldn't be able to just move out to the country and do what they want, we need to make it so there is no escaping maximum government control.
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I mean, I feel like it's probably a good thing to know how a pandemic originated so we can try to not let it happen again.
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And I'm sure I'll get obliterated for even asking, but can someone explain to me why it's such a big deal for everyone to get vaccinated for COVID? (I got the vaccine as early on as possibly FWIW) They originally said you couldn't get or transmit COVID once vaccinated, so it made sense. But once both of those things proved to be untrue, doesn't it just become a personal choice at that point?
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The Republican loser is claiming that redistricting hurt him because in the towns that were new to his district, he was an unknown. He seems to think that being an incumbent means you don’t have to work to gain voters’ confidence anymore and should give you an automatic advantage over any opponent.
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That means you're basically conceding very close elections because you told your supporters to only vote in a one-shot way instead of the easy way and a small percentage aren't going to make it on election day.
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However, he couldn't be arrested as he was a public official and laws in Trinidad and Tobago prevent public officials from being arrested/extradited. Law enforcement said to him he could save them if he just gave himself up willingly. He just told his son's he hopes they get good lawyers and let the police take them away. How true all of that story is is questionable to me, but after seeing the level of corruption these guys were a part of I wouldn't put it past him.
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One anecdote about Jack Warner from the documentary I'll mention is that when they went to arrest Jack's two sons (they were laundering money for their dad) at their apartment, Jack was present.
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And before you bring up "gun sellers should be responsible for checking out the people they're selling stuff to", there are already background check laws in place and so on with regards to guns being sold. The issue is that the system is poorly run so the existing gun control restrictions don't even do what they're supposed to. That's not something that more gun control laws can fix.
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From what I've seen, gun control advocates want nothing less than a full ban. Anything less than that is bemoaned. I only see one side refusing to compromise in the long-term, as more and more strict anti-gun laws keep being added.
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People try to normalize Liz Cheney for doing her job regarding the January 6th committee while ignoring that her politics outside of that are dogshit.
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If you're concerned about Cheney's ideology, you don't understand what the speaker does generally or what she'd need to do in this coalition situation. The only thing she'd be needed for is settling rules disputes, which I'm not worried about and you shouldn't be either.
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I'm worried these tanks will make it to the front and not be able to cross bridges without the bridges being reinforced, which just gives away to the Russians where your tanks are going to come from.
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Russians don't live with total news blackout; they will hear that NATO are now supplying heavy tanks.
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I fail to see how Russia having nukes should have any impact on whether a western country should defend itself.
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Similarly, NATO won't make Ukraine a member while it is in active conflict because it will trigger a nuke war that NATO can't win.
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So, here's my thought. How many US officials were tried and convicted of war crimes against humanity for dropping -- not one, but two -- atomic bombs on Japan?? Let that sink in. War crimes are determined by those who "win." There is no such thing as a "good war." There is no such thing as a "clean victory." There are, however, individuals -- atrocious individuals -- who use war as a way to release their inner monster. But, I find it offensive to declare Russia -- all of Russia -- guilty of crimes against humanity.
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Secondly: US crimes, current or recent are no where near the scale or extreme of Russian crimes. Comparing US crimes to Russian ones are like comparing a mugger to a murderer. Sure both committed crimes they shouldn’t have, but don’t pretend they are equally bad, and don’t use the muggers crimes to justify the murderer.
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I'm not saying you make it a war on religion. People are free to get an abortion or not. To express themselves in how they see fit and to love whom they love. What's not ok is when a religious minority is sculpting the laws and pushing their way of life onto everyone else via legal means.
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No. What I'm saying is that the people arguing to make it illegal are doing that on the basis of their religion.
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1. Most reps and government officials are not well known outside their (small) constituency, even then probably not well.
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The next time you see a politician talking shit or engaging in what you believe is self destructive rhetoric that will kill their career—they are aiming for a gig like this (and/or a book tour, also lucrative and no work involved). It pays so much better than their regular job, and there will almost ALWAYS be a gig like this waiting for anyone with national attention. Liz Cheney tanking her career? No fucking way, a book is DEFINITELY going to come soon, she's also due since she had books in 2011 and 2015. And it will sell like hotcakes in airports to bored liberals looking for catharsis. MTG talking the worst possible shit? Conservative media is saving a seat for her. Kyrsten Sinema fucking over the people who elected? Doesn't care, better paying gigs are coming now that she is a nationally known figure.
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Fun fact, "illegally" (is there a such thing as a legal invasion? No. It's just were you successful in justifying it to your constituents) invading a country isn't a war crime.
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Its how you invade and act during the invasion. Which all things considered in the rankings of invasions it was probably one of the least war-crimey of all times. But don't let facts get in the way of whataboutism. Next you'll be complaining about "russiaphobia".
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So to be clear, a guy was walking around the battlefield without any medic vest when he was shot. Being a medic does not create a bubble around you where everyone within several feet is considered a noncombatant. In every armed conflict, combatants walk near medics at some point.
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A soldier can also retrieve other soldiers. That doesn’t make them a medic that’s immune from the battlefield. A medic on a battlefield should wear uniform that clearly shows they’re a medic.
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It's not really about getting new voters or even swapping voters, turn out will presumably be low and it's a question of how many of your previous voters you can convince to go back out to the polls again. The quality of each campaigns get out the vote efforts is going to be what drives this election more than anything else.
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This election - like most elections- will be mostly about turnout. Get your people to turn out, and dissuade the other guys from turning out.
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It's not even interesting on abuse reddits, it's just a repeating cliche... a known pattern like gaslighting, FLEAs, projection, reversal, and triangulation.
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Triangulation, in the context of abuse, means the abuser using a third party to manipulate the victim. For instance, say a person cut contact with an abuser to try and protect themselves.. the abuser might convince a third person to 'go talk to' the victim, either to find out information or convince the victim to return to the abuser.
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But that’s how the Western system can seem to Chinese people (especially during Trump’s term). Makes it look like someone with zero experience or ability in politics can be put in the most senior political office because of wealth and becoming a beloved celebrity. Whereas a Chinese leader has always had decades of experience in governance.
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And, given China's long, long, rule by emperor; it is quite different than the path democracy took in the West.
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SCOTUS's current stance is that abortion-related issues are a power not withheld from the government by the U.S. Constitution, and that abortion-related rights are similarly not reserved to the people by the same. Further, Dobbs made it EXTREMELY clear that ground-floor abortion restrictions do not involve any area where the federal government can assert supremacy.
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"Codifying Roe" directly says: nuh-uh, the feds can swoop in and be in charge of that stuff, actually.
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I agree there is good debt and understand that a country’s debt is not the same as a persons. However a large amount of debt is held by borrowing from social security. I would rather them freeze social security rate increases now than doing a more extreme freeze in the future.
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I’d rather fix the debt issue now than do the traditional leave it for the next generation to fix. Gen Z and millennials are already fucked. I’d prefer not to make it worse.
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Yeah hopefully in the future it just gets ignored. Conceding is a nice gesture, but it is meaningless as far as who won and who lost. The jets lost on Sunday. Them refusing to admit they lost doesn't change the outcome.
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I don't get why we keep hearing about which loser refused to concede? The headline suggests there's something fishy about the winner of an election starting to prepare for doing the job.
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That said, Biden has the opportunity to replace two more board members in 6 days giving the theoretically anti DeJoy members a full majority and if there isn’t a call to oust him then I can’t for the life of me figure out why not.
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Who cares is that while that’s occurring why wouldn’t the board of generals who have enough people backing DeJoy not just elect a proxy for him?
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