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Explicit legislation that does not say the business has a right to protection against government search and seizure, just that they have to take care to protect data. Without 4th amendment protections, the cops could still show up and take records regardless of the laws that govern how a doctor's office secures and shares your data(that's the whole point of the 4th amendment in the first place). | The 4th amendment doesn't prevent you from releasing information in your possession if you choose to do so, it prevents the government from (illegally) seizing that information when you don't want it released. | 1 |
You drop these rednecks off in the middle of Romania and you tell them to go fight their millitary. They'd get their asses kicked. And they're out here thinking they can take on the US government by force. | What kills me about the gun lovers is they always use the excuse of they need them to defend themselves from the government. | 0 |
It's rather amusing, honestly. I can just hear Lindsey Graham on the Senate floor in a couple months, "but, it's a penis Doesn't anyone care about dicks anymore?". | Well, um.. yeah. It’s the job of judges and the judicial branch to imprison people. You make referrals because you want to bring attention to the jailers with who you think should be locked up and why. Just because something is more symbolic than 100% action doesn’t mean it’s useless. Not to mention all of the documents they’ll transfer to DoJ that none of us know about, and politicians are always going to do political stuff. | 1 |
This fucking bullshit. Bottom line the world was different in 2009 compared to 2011 and it has only gotten worse. It wasn’t about upholding shit from the 70s that was always there, it was about once again inventing a precedent, or excuse to create the unregulated and further corrupted result they and the federalist society desired since before citizen’s united even started. | How was this even remotely possible? Could it possibly have anything to do with Citizens United opening the door to foreign financial influence JUST LIKE EVERYONE BACK THEN SAID IT WOULD? | 0 |
Perhaps if you lived in America during the cold war where both communism and fascism were enemy 1 for the GOP you would understand the outrage about Russian/fascism 'meeting of minds' with the GOP in recent years. | What we are seeing now is right wing media/GOP celebration of racist/fascist Putin who is being used as an ideal figurehead to defend their demented world view. It is false equivalency on your part to deny this as something worth being extremely troubled about. | 0 |
"Former president Donald Trump and his lawyer, Alina Habba, have been fined almost $1 million by a federal judge in Florida for what was ruled a frivolous lawsuit brought against his 2016 presidential rival Hillary Clinton and others. | Former president Donald Trump and his lawyer, Alina Habba, have been fined almost $1 million by a federal judge in Florida for what was ruled a frivolous lawsuit brought against his 2016 presidential rival Hillary Clinton and others. | 1 |
The church need to get with the times. They're a part of our society, not ruling over it and not unaccountable to it. They don't get to tell entire countries how to treat large groups of the population. If they want to keep their hate-filled dogma, as far as I'm concerned they are more than welcome to do so - as soon as they give up on all the benefits they already have over the rest of society in terms of taxation, legal accountability, etc. | If yes, we agree. If no, you're saying there are certain issues where what a religion wants should outweigh what the nation wants. I'm not onboard with that. | 0 |
The federal government already offered Ohio aid; the governor of Ohio declined it, because apparently Republicans would rather have their constituents suffer and die than accept help from democrats. | The federal government already offered Ohio aid; the governor of Ohio declined it, because apparently Republicans would rather have their constituents suffer and die than accept help from democrats. | 0 |
And all of Trump's election denying candidates lost badly in the midterms. It almost feels like our American democracy might survive this far right authoritarian movement. | It makes it impossible for a repeat of the Jan 6th coup attempt. Trump tried to get the VP and others to refuse the certification of Biden as president and Trump nearly pulled it off but VP pence refused and certified Biden after the Capitol was secured. | 0 |
If Russia can produce shitty drones and missiles at a higher rate than the west can produce effective air defense missiles than they can exhaust Ukraine’s current supply of missiles. The west has given two NASAMs launchers to Ukraine and four more will arrive by November of next year. I would be shocked if they get more than eight Patriot launchers in total. Ukraine doesn’t really have that much air defense that can counter ballistic missiles. | Russia can't deploy anything but missile artillery and drones as it is. They aren't suddenly going to find some new capability to deploy against the patriots or they would have already used it to knock out the Anti Aircraft systems that Ukraine is already successfully using to keep their planes out. | 1 |
As someone who works at a bank, there absolutely usually is a fee to transfer money between banks internationally - in the UK it’s typically £25. You’re mistaking it for a card payment where typically its down to how you choose to have the exchange rate worked out (i.e by the merchant or your bank) but other than an exchange fee of a couple quid, there’s no real fee for transacting internationally. Some banks even offer no fee for transactions in certain areas (e.g I think Monzo allows for no fees in Europe, Starling is the same for US?). | Great. So any ambassadors who get called to Turkey to talk about this, simply start out with “Russia is doing this, you know this, we don’t have anything to talk about.“. | 1 |
Not to mention the issue of Ukrainian civilians, including numerous children, kidnapped to Russia and scattered. Getting the land back won’t bring them back, and I don’t think Ukraine is going to tolerate throwing them under the bus for Crimea. | Or maybe the vast majority of Ukraine citizens don’t want to negotiate and want to take back their land and get security guarantees from Europe and the US so they don’t need to do this again in 5-10 years. | 1 |
Housing prices are only increasing due to a shortage. There's tons of research on the strong relationship between vacancy rates and prices, between new construction and prices. (More building = lower prices). | The only solution is to build more housing. We need to remove the barriers that landowners have setup to block new housing. Whether it's public housing from the government, or new private housing from developers, doesn't really matter. In either case, more housing will solve the problem. | 0 |
Cut the military budget in half. Make taxation fair - why the fuck am I paying more in taxes as a blue collar worker than billionaires? Healthcare should not be for profit (public health and profit are diametrically opposed and can’t coexist, add in that for profit healthcare costs us all more in total, and for profit healthcare is truly against conservative values), make a true public option. Start there, those are true conservative values. | Those are textbook values that align with the definition of conservative values. But they’re the pposite of GOP values. The GOP is not conservative and does not represent the textbook definition of conservative values whatsoever. | 0 |
There are resistance movements in Russia and I will say I hear way too much complaining about Russians not resisting and not nearly enough about the ones who already are. | Edit: My main point still stands which is that the resistance in Russia has no chance unless they get more support. | 0 |
If diversity means you have to rent to an unemployed crackhead because she happens to be a minority, you are forcing the property owner and the other tenants to accept risk that they shouldn’t have to. | Diversity is fine, but don’t purposely sprinkle in impoverished shitty people because you think this is what my neighborhood needed. I am no longer safe in my front yard and I am sure my resale value has been greatly affected. What sounds good on paper isn’t necessarily great in practice. | 0 |
“Although there are other laser-based defense systems already deployed, there aren't any that claim to act like Iron Beam to cheaply destroy small targets like rockets," said Ryan Bohl, Stratfor's Middle East and North Africa analyst at RANE. "That puts Iron Beam into its own category in terms of mission type.". | Thank, but I’m going to go ahead and believe an actual defense analyst over an arm chair analyst who read a Wikipedia page and now thinks they’re the worlds expert on the topic. Thanks for your input though. | 0 |
So, you’re saying that several hundred thousand people that are either compelled to service or decided to make a living in the military, somehow represent all of more than 100 million Russians? | I’m not making any grand discoveries. I’m pointing out what’s obvious. Just like not all Americans support the war in Ukraine. Not all people supported the Iraq war and therefore should not have been treated the same as the rest who did support the war. | 0 |
If you’re a Christian family, sure, but my point is it’s totally legitimate to celebrate Christmas from a secular/non religious, even atheist stance. | Most of Western Europe is atheist/agnostic but we all celebrate Christmas as a cultural tradition and midwinter festival, more so than to celebrate Jesus. | 0 |
Turnout in Georgia’s general election this year was 56 percent of all active voters, shy of the 2018 high-water mark for a midterm election. | About 1.3 million mail ballots were cast in Georgia in the presidential election two years ago, compared with just under 250,000 last month — an 81 percent decrease. | 0 |
D; Ukraine accepts and actually honors the ceasefire, but Russia blows up some of its emptied out hangars and blames it on Ukraine for not wanting piece. | Ukraine accepts ceasefire and sticks to it. Russia launches a massive attack with impunity, while gloating about the fools that believed them on national TV;. | 1 |
Facism is the dictatorial rule of a central figure, using the forcible suppression of opposition and individual interests for the perceived good of the ruling group. | No, this would be fascism as the conservative government is utilizing the power of the state to punish a company for not following the dictates of the conservative party. That is fascism not communism. | 1 |
And soft on Saudi, and Qatar, and Iran, and Syria, and wait... there's a clear trend here where all the surrounding countries are worse but get a pass but Israel gets condemned. | Unfortunately every other Arab nation will go after Israel, then other countries will go after Israel to piss of the US, and then finally Israel is a giant douche about Palestine. | 1 |
For those playing along at home, that’s almost enough to service the $1.5B in yearly interest that Musk has to pay on the giant loan he has for the site. | So the financial situation is not great, but could be better so let’s “put it to a public vote” by the guy that has the ability to manipulate said vote and is financially incentivized for the outcome of that vote. It’s definitely not strange that within an hour of putting up the poll that it had 2.5M votes that nearly 70% of those going Trump and as it goes on it’s edging closer to 50:50 with another 10 more million votes in 20 more hours. Doesn’t sound like anyone’s been attacking it with bots early, nope surely not. | 0 |
Yes, there's always the chance that just by being a dual citizen you can get in a lot of trouble - but people weigh those risks when it's down to big events that have to do with their families. It's not so cut and dry as "never go back to your homeland ever again" for a lot of people. | Also, I agree with this detainee that the US should do more. After decades of sanctions to tell us we need to revolt against our government and force regime change, time and time again when there are movements... our people haven't really gotten support from western governments. Now we're talking about 4 months of sustained civil unrest against the IRI... and there's still so many high level members of sepah/IRGC and the government that western countries are sanctioning. | 0 |
Trashy. How much are those people told to pay in %age of their income to multi-billionaire banksters as "student debts" ? | Now for the interesting fact: the 10% of borrowers with over the $50k line hold 40% of all student debt. | 1 |
Exactly what all the pro CCP types always say to defend China. So China has unfair business practices that you all defend but the moment the US does anything to retaliate or limits what Chinese companies can do in the US, you guys quickly criticize the US. | Like /u/Ayylmaothoughyaknow said, There’s no fair play in China so why should you or China get made when roles are reversed? | 0 |
To be fair they had a couple of reasonable amendments in there that got rejected like the ban on selling fetus body parts or adding restrictions on abortions after 39 weeks. | The only people getting “abortions” at 39 weeks are people who are in the most dire medical need, so banning end-term abortion actually just means killing people. No one’s aborting babies that are fully capable of living outside the womb without any intervention. | 1 |
I don't blame you for not looking. Others have - I took a quick look - Sunday, this news was not in the top 20 items sorted by best, hot, or new. I couldn't get beyond 20 items before reality started twisting. | Republicans sound more and more like Hydra, the creepy, secret organization in the Marvel universe with plans begun by the Nazis () to defeat democracy in the United States (), then take over control of the world(!). | 0 |
He’s not getting a second term. He HAS TO know that. But there’s nothing he can do right now that would make his long term prospects worse. | And the only people that can remove him are his Republican colleagues. And they have a narrow enough margin that, so long as he does what he’s told like he just did re: committees, there is also nothing he can do that would make putting up with him worse than putting his seat back up for a special election that would probably go to a Democrat. | 0 |
In 1992 we made a full Spanish-version monopoly game with real cash. It was worthless. I remember we ran it through the washing machine, then ironed out the bills. We still have that board "game.". | There it is. This is one of the major problems with Argentina, everyone focuses too much on Peron, either using him as a scapegoat or a role model, and not enough on getting shit done. Blaming him solves nothing, doing stuff does. | 1 |
Uncertain. My deck is a sun-blasted hellscape in summer. “Bright shade” could be okay, and mine live under feet of snow for weeks at a time every winter. Opuntia something or other. I got my first pads from a guy on eBay who lived in northern MN, grew them on the side of his house. | They have both long, relatively fat and very painful needles, as well as tufts of sticky tiny needles that will never leave you. Instead, consider planting along the entire perimeter for effective home defense . | 0 |
Omar has criticized Israel in the past so the new Republican leadership said "We won't stand for anti-semites! 😤😤😤" And kicked her off her committees. Meanwhile the actual anti-semite Republicans are given their choice of positions. | Smart Republicans care about electability, but they're in the minority. Most Republicans want racism, little dances, and insulting nicknames. If you promise to hurt the people they hate, they'll love you forever. | 1 |
It's ironic.. Putin wanted to be remembered as a scary ironman and the glorious hero of Russia who restored it to a superpower.. instead he'll go down history as the dummass clown who took on a nation 10X smaller and miscalculated so bad he kickstarted the collapse of his own country. | Russia has had troubles for years, but one of the reasons so much of its shit got tolerated was how Putin was seen as this iron fisted genius. Somebody that slowly was stabilizing a country wrecked by the collapse of the old glory, when Soviet fell apart. Somebody that, while not nice, was simply needed in a place of great corruption and hopelessness. | 1 |
Even my own father got in on the whole Marcos thing cause he bought into the Duterte cult of personality who supported the asshole, he even warned my mother not to vote for the opposition. Now that the Marcos are in power though, they're in the seat that people shit on since they have to deal with the aftermath of Covid and the inflation issue and their supporters are either on the defensive or just ignore reality and sit on their little bubble ignoring the burning building, bad news though is that Marcos seems to be still focusing on PR instead of any work that can alleviate all these issues, he's also imitating Duterte's foreign policy of ambiguously sucking off both China and the U.S., depending on who's the lesser threat like some crackwhore who's choosing which STD to get. | Filipinos in general have massive presence online, but they aren't exactly savvy and are so easily affected by disinformation. My own aunt is basically not on speaking terms with her own sisters(including my mother) since she's a Marcos supporter, EVEN though my grandparents suffered through the martial law and hated the Marcoses(this aunt of mine was too young back then to remember but my mom still remembers the days of hellish curfew and the police brutality that was common back then). | 0 |
Undeniably so. During his declaration of war special military operation speech back in February, the guy openly said that Lenin and Stalin made mistakes and that many countries came into existence in 1917 which never should have been allowed to do so, due to a lack of precedent for independence. And obviously who better to reestablish the union than Daddy Putin? | The problem is that Russia - or at least Putin and many Russian nationalists - does not see it that way. They see Ukraine (and Belarus) as really being Russian land and the people really being brainwashed Russians. | 1 |
You know that concept pre-dates the USA by about 1500 years, right??? The Vikings invented trial by jury. They gave it to the Brits, who gave it to us. | GA has two types of Grand Jury. Special Grand Jury which this chick was the foreman for, and regular Grand Jury. Special GJs last longer, but don’t have indictment authority. Regular GJ which is going on now, only last for 2 months, and they have indictment powers. The next jury after the indictment isn’t really accounted for because it hasn’t been selected yet. That will follow after indictment, and arraignment. | 0 |
Well, it's a voluntary weapon disposal program, with apparently the possibility to get a permit for the weapon. Though yes ... why should you have to go pay and ask for a permit for something that is already yours? | In any case, it doesn't seem like it's a forced confiscation or anything, just reminding and asking people to hand over old guns. | 0 |
Not all Gerrymandering is bad, it is actually a nessecary process so long as there is still inequality or geographic separation. If everyone was equally well off, and there was no racial or class based discrimination of location, then we could throw out gerrymandering. | Not to mention just totally pissing off every kind of social or ethnic minority possible lately; me included. I'm not a fence-sitter and always vote, BUT I KINDA WISH I COULD SHOUT MY VOTE THIS CYCLE. | 1 |
I’ve read about all those actually. None of it is perfect. Could we as a nation forbid all companies based in the US to get out of Russia? I bet we could, but I, not sure. And boycott the ones who aren’t based here but still do business there. ( IKEA comes to mind) We could’ve stopped this war months ago but seem bent on keeping it going. Like I said it’s far from perfect , the way it’s playing out. War has always been a boost to a slow economy. Is this what’s happening ? It’s a strategy ? | 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. | 0 |
The goal of this seems to stop the "braces" that are really just rifle stocks and not the type of braces that form around the forearm and can't really be shouldered. | Please not that the rationale for all this is that braces mounted on pistols make them more concealable. Except that that is absurd, they make pistols _less_ concealable. The whole thing is performative and will make zero difference in violent crime. | 1 |
The American polarization on guns didn't really exist until the 80s anyway. Before then gun control wasn't particularly pushed for, and gun rights weren't advocated for much either. It wasn't until the violence of the 70s and 80s that gun control became a bigger push, and the gun rights movement was awakened into the powerful force it is today. | Not that gun laws are not racist and classiest, but California really got enthusiastic about gun control when somebody took a shot at Reagan. Which kinda says a lot about the moorings of Republicans. A country of men, not of laws. | 1 |
It is, the nature of territorial status means that the constitution doesn't fully apply, which is what allows the ethnic based laws to operate. | Basically a territory can't just declare itself a state. Congress needs to approve the entry of any new state. So any referendum undertaken by Puerto Rico without a vote in Congress legitimizing it is non-binding. Similarly Congress can't force statehood on a territory they can authorize a binding referendum but can't make Puerto Rico hold one against their will. | 1 |
Everyone suffers if nukes star flying around. It just devastates both sides, and Putin is willing to go down swinging, in that sense it's better to not star world war 3. | - an all-out conflict with the West, in which case it might also end in a total destruction of Russia as a country and culture. | 1 |
Yeah there is. Let them strike and congress could get out of the way. The billionaires have hundreds of billions in profits. They can afford to give sick leave. | Their employers have the money to give them sick leave. We could have paid sick leave AND have the trains run on time if the employers would just treat their workers better. If the rails fail, it won't be the striking workers fault, it'll be the greedy employer's fault. | 1 |
Nah, we all know that they're racists and we also know that he's complicit in that racism. He should own that CHOICE without it being assigned to the Republican party and removed from him. | Sure. But I'd argue that the problem is the belief that a Black person can't agree with them without being a prop. | 0 |
We haven’t had a new massive missile strike in quite some time, our forces were predicting that the next one could happen at the end of this week, and it still might, but usually they don’t fire missiles during the weekends. The last big missile strike did happen on weekend, but it was a special occasion, because they would never miss an opportunity to bomb us on New Year’s. So I’m not sure if there will be a missile strike today or tomorrow, though there’s a good chance it will happen at the start of the next week. | If they had started the first day of the war the first (small) batch would just be arriving right about now. And the bulk would take nearly another year from now still. So I think this is naturally just a very slow option. They are right to balk at this, imo. It's just unacceptable. Either the people doing the work need more money/resources to up their timelines or we need to do something else (or something in addition to this). | 1 |
Dogs, cats, rabbits, and monkeys are cool and all, but seriously, human lives are far more important. I don't condone the mistreatment of animals during testing, but the vast majority is done in a humane way. | No, because most people don’t give a shit about medical ethics - they care about puppies. I ain’t saying they’re right, but you won’t win people over with that argument. Anyone who cares about that already agrees with you! | 1 |
All Prigozhin does is broadcast bold bandit-like rhetoric that Russian and credulous Western media picks up on, and that happens because he's powerless, just like Medvedev, after he was demoted to unimportant roles. In the West they just can't imagine that power in Russia can be as centralized as it isn't in the democratic countries. | He doesn't have any real power, as he can't even do anything against the (pro-Putin) Saint Petersburg mayor that's criticizing him for using an illegal mercenary army, is constantly being searched by Russia's security apparatus, and doesn't even get a meeting from Putin. Plain and simply, there's no evidence on the ground that Prigozhin is building up influence among Russian siloviki, military and policymakers. | 0 |
Stems from the same core philosophy. All liberal parties have been on-board with it for decades. Liberals actually believe in the liberal side of it, conservatives only when it suits them. | and somehow phrase as if that's the liberals agenda when it's the conservative's. So their argument is a lie. There is a differ nce between something being a liberal idea and being the linerals idea. | 1 |
Not a reason not to do it. He will do his worst either way. The thing to do is help Ukraine defeat his worst efforts. | To be clear, the very fact Ukraine got anything at all is what let them survive against the crappy Russian army. Further, you conveniently ignore the javelins, Nlaws and Himars that are by no means junk. This is exactly what I mean when I say people underlay the role of the west. | 1 |
Exactly. The point isn't to have Taiwan win, but to make taking it so costly and unfruitful that China cannot afford to invade and/or occupy long term. | For something like this USA to Taiwan sale to help prevent Chinese incursion, I can see a lot of reasons for why this is normal and legimate (perhaps because I'm on the USA side of that issue). | 1 |
Only if moderate Republicans pull off a coup and build a coalition for the speakership with the Dems. Otherwise, the speakership will be decided by the Republican Party plurality of crazy. And without the speakership, Dems have no control over the house agenda regardless of how many Republicans would join them in moderate legislation. | Republicans, for whatever reason, ASSUME that if Democrats take control of the legislature, that they (the Democrats) will treat Republicans like Republicans treat Democrats when Republicans are in power. | 1 |
Are you also aware that the reason they're currently being barred from the National Assembly is precisely because they did NOT swear this oath to the monarch? | I mean, if your government is a constitutional monarchy, swearing an oath of allegiance to the monarch is akin to swearing one to the constitution. In the US we often swear an oath of allegiance to a flipping flag because it’s the symbol of our government. The British monarch kinda plays the same role in Canada, Britain, and the other Commonwealth countries. | 1 |
Then again, one of the major points regarding shorter work weeks is that many employees aren't doing the 40 hours' worth anyway, as it's too much to ask. | I do actually kinda get the reason for both shorter workweeks & work from home being faught against. | 1 |
Biden's continuation of Trump era policies regarding asylum seekers should be condemned. The fact that he was looking to Gitmo for displaced Haiti asylum seekers shouldn't be taken lightly. The fact that ICE falls under his direct purview yet continue to use the concentration camps is unforgivable. | It's vile regardless and shouldn't be defended by bringing up Obama or Bush. Biden's own implementation of Title 42 is insanely restrictive that almost no asylum seeker will be able to fall under it. The whole system needs an overhaul, but we need to stop cutting them slack when Biden has almost full control of ICE and isn't doing much of anything to slow their abuse down. | 0 |
If you do so with intent or recklessness as to it being used to result in arrest or trial of an innocent person? | See the case of Simon James who orchestrated a false accusation of drug dealing against his ex wife, having ensured that cocaine had been planted in her car. Convicted, along with his conspirators, Austin Warnes and Jonathan Rees. | 0 |
Russia is already trying that with cheap self-destroying drones from Iran, at the point that they become cheap enough for this sort of attack they also become susceptible to light arms fire taking them down as they move slowly and are quite loud. | My hope is Ukraine can use these new drones to take out more launch sites, make it so any missile volleys that are launched are reduced so much that Ukrainian AA can handle it without issue. | 1 |
Look at it this way: cisgender people have the ability to have their legal gender reflect their gender identity. Nonbinary people currently do not. This outcome isn't the end of the world, but it does reflect disappointing yet unsurprising attitudes towards trans people. | Having a legal third gender won't erase bigotry, but an unacceptable social climate leads to leaving nonbinary people out. | 0 |
H.R.8404 "replaces provisions that do not require states to recognize same-sex marriages from other states with provisions that prohibit the denial of full faith and credit or any right or claim relating to out-of-state marriages on the basis of sex, race, ethnicity, or national origin. (The Supreme Court held that state laws barring same-sex marriages were unconstitutional in Obergefell v. Hodges in 2015; the Court held that state laws barring interracial marriages were unconstitutional in Loving v. Virginia in 1967.) The act allows the Department of Justice to bring a civil action and establishes a private right of action for violations.". | A ban would still be a 14th Amendment violation. And RFMA would still prevent the Iowa state government from prosecuting couples who married out of state. Both of those laws would seem to completely invalidate any sort of ban on same sex marriage. | 0 |
Unfortunately the Russian people don’t care enough now to remove Putin and his subordinates from power. | Such measures are probably counterproductive because it will just make it less likely than Putin will give up and instead will fight to the bitter end. | 1 |
Eh nothing special she flip flops way too much the only thing I’d like about her winning would be to piss off the left in the fact that the first female president isn’t a democrat. | Hell, I'd wager even a lot of the GOP party leadership, when push really comes to shove, aren't gonna have the balls to turn their backs on him like that - however sick of him politically as they might be. I think A LOT of people are really underestimating the psychological hold Trump still holds over the party base. His image is still more powerful than that of any other politician in the party (including DeSantis). | 1 |
I do mean proper journalists, not talking heads and all that. The ones who do the work that is then ripped off by 5k clickbait sites and badly misquoted. News hosts can be journalists and often are former ones but often not. | Most of the journalists aren't putting their lives on line, most of the journalists ignore important and relevant News and pump out cheap news that gets clicks/retweets. Journalists and editors are also responsible for curating news, manipulating story, pumping out headlines that grab attention and distorts the truth. | 1 |
I’ll also follow up and I believe military times showed with polling. It also depends on the branch. The Army and Marine corps have favored the Republicans while the Navy and Air Force have favored the Democrats. | The most comical part about this is the military vote is typically GOP. So not only are they clipping their own direct votes of active deployed military they are also pissing off veterans who largely vote GOP. | 1 |
Again Ukraine's UN vote same as Azerbaijan's vote changed nothing at the UN. Just another weak political excuse for blocking lethal aid. | You make the same argument, Ukraine didn't do anything for us so why should we help? It's short-sighted and weak. Israel knows all too well how much help it needs to survive. If nothing else, Israel should stay close in policy to their biggest allies, the USA and Europe countries, and who they sanction and support. | 0 |
Hmmm looks like the russian economy is tanked even harder with the war and there is a high probability that this will end with the pike in putins ass up the way to his head. Sooo great job. | That's pretty much how it has always worked. Except substitute EU for the U.S. You think the sanctions on Iran and Iraq were supposed to be fair or something? The global financial system is a tool of U.S. politics. Always has been (since WWII anyway). | 1 |
It's still threatened for those who believe in the Moscow patriarchate. Why not just punish religious leaders without banning the practice of religion? | Right to practice religion is not threatened. There still is the Ukrainian Orthodox Church of the Kyiv Patriarchate, which follows the same rites, but is not subordinate to Russian aggressors. | 1 |
1. When we look at Mississippi's history, we have a whole lot of white judges intentionally suppressing the rights of black people. | Also, if you look up the history of voting in Mississippi, you’ll undoubtedly find that white people didn’t derive their power from fair voting. | 1 |
Laws were never designed to prevent crime or to keep someone from doing a thing. All they do is define a certain act as bad so that we can punish the person who committed the act. | My usage of black didn't refer to the black market but the color of the average AR15. How do you suggest catching all of these supposed black market sales? | 0 |
Basically, if you're a farmer and want to plough a field after a war like this, you need to treat the whole thing as if it were a mine field, even if you can't find any evidence that it was mined. You're going to disturb every inch of the field, and just one device could kill you. | The problem with mines that that there are 'mine fields' that are known about, mapped and even marked, and then there are the ones that weren't documented or marked. Any field the Russians have occupied might have been mined. | 0 |
I’d be surprised if they even get that. Seeing some of the sentencing going on these days, makes it seem like murder isn’t a big deal anymore unless there is public outcry. | Also what system is in place for murderers paying restitution, I agree that would be excellent but it hasn’t happened. In the case that it does they still should serve at least ten years, they can do prison work for restitution. Anything less than ten is way too soft and you’re going to have people thinking it’s not such a bad penalty. Also cops tend to get significantly less sentences than the precedent if at all, with time served being even less than the sentence: so whatever you set keep that in mind. Do you want cops running around getting off with a few months time served on murders? | 1 |
And no, being treated as second-class foreigners from the Levant in Europe for centuries does not mean Ashkenazi Jews are “actually European”. | I mean, the difference there is also the Jews come from the area and are also indigenous to the land as well as the Palestinians... | 1 |
We face an existential threat to human civilization, and we are speeding up as we go over the cliff. | The point I was trying to make (perhaps not so well?) was: show me a dozen Democratic members of Congress - the party that I routinely vote for - that will significantly slash the Pentagon's budget. | 0 |
Yea. For real. As another user pointed out, the Gov. can call a special session at any time, but it's typically reserved for emergencies and used to extend the sessions in years they are already meeting. | (I have to point this out because of how fucking stupid it is these jackasses only work every other year.). | 0 |
Only if the most extreme form is adopted - and SCOTUS has already recently rejected a case that asked to do just that. | Now, certainly nothing stops SCOTUS from overreaching and ruling on that too, but given they rejected a similar case I'd say it's unlikely they intend to do so. | 0 |
Russia has shown interest in seizing these deposits so starting developing them is a way to prevent that as any attack on them will be seen for what it is nothing but theft of there oil and gas deposits, not that russia has the knowhow to develop these fields but they could stop others from doing so thus the reliance on russian oil and gas remains. | Oil is not necessary in any way it is just the will of the people to force government to install solar that is lacking due to propaganda saying it is not good enough or too expensive, yes the energy created from solar on every roof would give more electricity than all oil and gas power plants combined. | 0 |
I think that gradually phasing in new stoves as electric ones is a good idea. If you’re going to electrify your oven, might as well do the stove while you’re at it. Even if you are using gas fired power plants for electricity (which is by no means guaranteed especially as time passes), there would still be the thermodynamic advantages that come from combusting gas on a larger scale. A long tailpipe, but still a narrower one nonetheless, and those rounding errors will add up over time. | I lived in a deathtrap of a building with horrible ventilation, no insulation (and lath-and-plaster walls), gas space heaters (only source of heat), gas stoves, and gas ovens. I absolutely hated that oven and avoided using it as much as possible. Even then, I put fans in the windows to have a continuous supply of fresh air. Nobody else in the building seemed to be doing that, though. I shudder to think of the air the other tenants were breathing in there. Gas ovens definitely need to go. | 0 |
Now Im not interested enough in what is potentially a bad faith argument from you to go do more research as to how many board members of Shell over the years have had links or were politicians in the VVD. But I will bet its going to be a reasonable number. | Im gonna bet the friends of the VVD have enjoyed their increased wealth from syphoning revenues from the Groeningen fields. | 0 |
Even so, a guarantee saying that Russia won't attack won't mean much unless a violation draws in multiple countries to defend against a Russian invasion. Better to simply assume that Russia will attack and spend 5-10 years rapidly building defenses like Finland. | Certainly, but that is not going to happen while Putin thinks he can come out ahead of where he was before the 2022 invasion and while Ukraine sees that they can liberate even regional capitals from Russian control. Since a compromise now that gives Russia "a win" will only ensure future turmoil and suffering, Ukraine needs to keep pushing until Russia is forced to come to the negotiating table. | 0 |
And for what it's worth, I'm sick of being lumped in with all the racists because I look and have an accent like them. | No, and fuck em, from a white, male, middled-aged leftist, who votes as far left as the ballot allows. | 0 |
"At first we were skeptical, but then it turns out we found that it's constitutional to set up permanent conservative minority rule in America! Good thing we, the conservative voting majority on the supreme court, were able to come to a balanced and reasonable solution to this case.". | This. I'm expecting something along the lines of "the SCONC was within their rights to reject the proposed map, but overstepped their authority in redrawing the map independently of the legislature." Which is a moot point because the map was temporary anyway. | 1 |
You’d have to have it on all the time, though, as the problem is that gas stoves leak gas even when not in use. | 30 years ago that was a recommendation concerning gas stoves provided by our gas supplier. Provide adequate venting to the outside and use it every time you use the stove. | 1 |
Turns out, when the americans left, they 'found' (read, faked) almost double the oil reserves over night. | Bruh look at their demographics. China lacks vital stuff like high precision machining and Chip manufacture. They just lost access to that and the leader is driving it into the ground faster. | 0 |
It's a backhanded comment to point out how India isn't doing shit and funding Russia's side of the war through increased oil purchases... | Like I said, Modi started refusing it because he cares more about telling his voters that India is "an emerging superpower" than children starving. | 0 |
I don’t think she’ll get the nomination but I think she’d easily win the general of the matchup was against Biden and Kamala. | I don’t think she’ll get the nomination, but if she did there is no chance that Biden or Harris can beat her. She’d peal off women from Biden, along with a whole lot of minority votes. Harris rubs all but the hardest left voters the wrong way, I don’t think she can beat any Republican, including Trump. | 1 |
Yes the "militarized swat-only police" budget obviously need to be partly allocated to auxiliaries to descalate, medical assistance and so on. And they shouldn't be above the law (re prosecuting the obvious gang & racist murders waved with a badge, leading neonazi mobsters to join in bulk to try to dodge the law). But you still need at least some cops. Even after booting all the neonazis & corrupt elements. | The neonazis cannot be booted. American police grew out of slave catching patrols. The institution is intentionally rotten. There is nothing they solve that couldn't be better solved with fewer murderous side effects through another method. | 1 |
Protests can be effective as a tool of change. There are other tools in the toolbox, mind you, and the state is aware of that. Why else do you think they (the state) would attempt to quell protests using violence if there were no point to them? | The thing, the protesters having weapons probably wouldn't make this that much better since the government would just have better weapons. And those weapons do nothing without some sort of legal foundation for the protesters to grab onto. | 1 |
Donald Trump was not on the ballot this week for Republican leadership races in Congress, but in several key spots the proxy candidates espousing his approach to politics dealt the ex-president another losing hand. | Scott began his tenure chairing the National Republican Senatorial Committee early last year by making up an award to present to the ex-president at his Palm Beach resort, continued into this year by not intervening in GOP primaries to block Trump-like candidates and ended with Democrats retaining the majority by defeating those mini-Trump candidates. | 0 |
The Chinese government has also argued that Taiwan's separation from the mainland is a legacy of China's history of foreign invasion and colonization, and that reunification is necessary to restore China's national dignity and unity. In addition, China's leaders see Taiwan as a strategic and economic asset, and believe that reunifying with Taiwan would give China greater influence in the region and the world. | TSMC is an important part of Taiwan's soft power policy, but it is at best secondary in either the US or China's interests there. The Chinese hawks see the continued existence of a free Taiwan in general and the KMT in specific as the final bit of "unfinished business" left over from The Revolution. Which dovetails with but is still probably less important than the military truth of the situation. | 1 |
Nope Russia are a strategic threat to the west and only partial normalisation should ever be on the table. Any material that can be used for military purposes should be barred from sale to Russia on an indeterminate basis. | All expectation is Russia will be forced to accept the reality of losing the war without anything materially changing in Russia. That doesn't allow for what happened with West Germany. | 0 |
Even the strongest building gets destroyed though when earthquakes just hits the fact that a 6 magnitude earthquake hit my place. | Is It true that the Richter scale is not particularly useful when it comes to measuring nearby quakes larger than magnitude than 6.0-7.0? I know the physical seismograph can only physically record about that high if you're near the epicenter of because there isn't actually room for the pen to measure higher than that. I believe most devices are digital now, but do they run into the same problem? | 1 |
These same suburban Republicans/moderate Democrats are flipping a shit over progressives wanting to remove AP/Honors courses for classroom equity reasons. I highly doubt they’re suddenly gonna be fine with it because of “woke shit”. | Rural republicans yes but suburban republicans/swing voters won’t be too keen on Desantis’ policies that torpedo their kids’ chances at getting in to a competitive college. | 0 |
>As an attempt to gain "discourse power" in international politics, wolf warrior diplomacy forms one part of a new foreign policy strategy called Xi Jinping's "Major Country Diplomacy" (Chinese: 大国外交; pinyin: Dàguó Wàijiāo) which has legitimized a more active role for China on the world stage, including engaging in an open ideological struggle with the Western world. | Because, insofar as this article and wikipedia, the Chinese don't seem call it that domestically, at least not officially. It's a descriptor of their "Major Country Policy". It's seems to be a Tongue-in-cheek expression. The guy that started with the agressive comments once called a wolf warrior which is not good. | 0 |
- Can the House & Senate be compared in terms of "importance"? As in, if the Dems hypothetically had to "choose" one to win, is the Senate victory more important? | - Which states do the Dems need/which states look like the Dems could win and simultaneously win the Senate majority? | 0 |
He's a dominionist and always has been. It's safe to assume pretty much every republican voting Christian feels this way. Right wing theocracies are a pretty common thing in human history. | We are on borrowed fucking time if we don't chain these tyrants down now and pull this country hard to the left. We are on the brink of becoming the next Iran. These statements are effectively our final warning. | 0 |
You disagree that Venezuela, Cuba, North Korea, Eritrea, etc wouldn't love to park some nice shiny loaner nukes on their land, thereby propping up both themselves and Russia? | If Russia uses nukes, especially first, then all the currently 'neutral' countries that are pretty much there just for the cheap oil or because west bad, they'll turn against Russia. Putin using nukes benefits exactly no one, not even him. | 1 |
Peace is made by negotiations. Always. Warlords never start the peace talks, so simply waiting until Putin makes a peace offer or leaves is unrealistic and naive - and waiting for a military victory by Ukraine only means prolonging the killing of thousands. | Usually I would support negotiations to stop any war, but security guarantees aren't going to stop Putin's Russia from trying to ethnically cleanse Ukrainians in Ukraine. | 1 |
And will talk about publicly. If there were some that the perpetrators don’t know that MI5 are aware of, they wouldn’t necessarily confirm they knew about it. | I'm fairly confident that if you thought of that, MI5 have also thought of that and made a calculated announcement for reasons they'll likely not reveal. Not saying you're not a smart person, but I think MI5 got this covered and know a thing or two about this kinda stuff. | 1 |
It isn't a false equivalence. The USA and UK invaded a sovereign nation over what we knew even then was almost certainly not factual. The fact that one nation is democratic and one was authoritarian is irrelevant as the claim I replied to was regarding the invasion of a sovereign nation. | You might not like the idea that those nations invaded Iraq over what they knew were lies but that does not change the truth. | 0 |
more likely Russia is looking at a civil war between 4 players who ever is controlling the Military who ever is the 1 & 2 richest and what ever merc grope is left. | They never said it was a Missile Defense System more likely its a radar tower Putin probably scared out of his mind that CIA or some other group will come in the night. | 0 |
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