Due to the very real and observable ratchet effect, the outcome of your strategy is that things actually get worse… just slightly slower than they otherwise would. Voting for the “lesser of two evils” will never, ever make things better. You need to take a risk and vote for a non-evil to even have a shot at making things actually better.
He’s the biggest liability to all of his companies. Good on SpaceX for firewalling him from the company as well as they do.
I think that Israel’s habit of constantly fucking with its neighbors makes it more of a liability to the interests of the US. It leads to more local hostility towards US troops in other regions in the area and attacks on US people and interests both abroad and at home (9/11).
A better approach would be to ally with indigenous democracies and help them maintain stability. First, our allies should be at least mostly compatible with our own national values (not theocracies, monarchies, apartheid states, etc). Secondly, allying with an indigenous nation instead of a bunch of settler colonists is less likely to draw the ire of every common person in the region.
Some Palestinian children and international aid workers are going to pay dearly for this.
lol, somebody modded this up?
Be careful everybody! This poster was extradited and is currently serving a prison sentence in London for the comment above. Don’t make the same mistake they did.
Relieved in the sprinkle pool? If not, I’m disappointed.
Because it’s a wall of text bot-spam from a self-appointed arbiter of truthfulness with questionable methodology.
And it’s spammed to every posting on some subs giving the disappointing appearance of actual human activity.
Hiring “bad apples” needs to be a crime for the sheriff, chief, etc. It’s sad that’s what it would take to keep guns and badges out of these guys hands.
They were in violation of that treaty themselves and the US is no longer a party to it (as of 2019).
They should be called oligarchs here too
This really is the right answer, as much as I despise what Israel is doing.
The Olympics should be about increasing non-hostile relations between people of the world and I don’t think anyone should be excluded.
Complicating this stance though is the compulsory military service that means that the attending athletes are associated with the military and the ongoing atrocities.
Which Democratic candidate are you thinking of? Surely not the one who has been bankrolling this whole thing so far…
I don’t think any “viable” candidate from any party will support the ICJ judgement.
But they’re also having to fight for more limited funding among a crowd of chatbot “researchers”. The funding agencies are enamored with LLMs right now.
Thank you for beating me to this. I had just copied that section to post this exact same thing.
How many other people are in prison to cover up the crimes of the police?
No need to qualify that statement.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Office_of_Personnel_Management_data_breach
With even email clients and web browsers running arbitrary and untrusted remote code on a regular basis, that model needs serious reconsideration.
This xkcd shouldn’t still be insightful. https://xkcd.com/1200/
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No, the immediate problem is that we know that people make decisions based on a vibe and who orates better and (out of all of the qualified people in the country) we still hang our hat (and the future of the country) on a poor orator with a bad vibe. It’s 2016 all over again and it seems like nobody’s learned a thing.
This shouldn’t be a hard race at all. Why are we insisting on handicapping ourselves like this?
I would argue that this sort of logical path wouldn’t be too shocking for the founders and they would just count on civility or elections to keep this from happening. The executive pardon itself is a fairly indefensible and corruption-facilitating loophole in the justice system.