Milk_Sheikh
“according to a study conducted”
59 people surveyed
This is why paid, professional journalism is important. Basic editorial effort would refuse to publish lines regurgitating junk science
received the highest number of votes in US history
Naturally, nobody has ever been born or died since 1776 in the US, and your statement is incredibly valid
Just accept that Biden (and/or the DNC) hugely messed up by claiming ‘I will not seek reelection’ and who ran as a caretaker-president for democracy post Trump. Biden/DNC spent the last years suppressing challengers and calling for big-tent party unity - and now it’s too late to pivot in the face of repeatedly rough polling.
In reality Biden has been a ho-hum return to the status quo, and enough of the American electorate were ready in 2016 to give the nuclear keys to a COMPLETELY unproven political outsider. The electorate’s perception may be wrong or capricious, but they get to decide
Welcome to the ‘middle ground’ of this conflict, where the extremists on both sides demand you see and recognize only their dead, the atrocities they’ve suffered, but simultaneously ignore and downplay the people in the other end of the violence. Always pointing further into the past for justification of the most recent conflict
Like you said, on its own a surprise attack that focused its violence to wantonly kill civilians was horrific enough to bring nearly the entire world, Arab nations included, to solidarity with Israel on Oct 7-9. Nobody was talking about illegal settlements or the annexation of Jerusalem, or any of the other perennial issues. The Likud-coalition had a lot of untenable choices suddenly very possible, and they chose this
Spoken with such confidence, but no facts
Japan arguably has the most stringent weapons laws in the world, and while the high end airsoft is a big deal there, there isn’t a black/gray market for rebuilding like you’re implying. If you like guns in Japan, you join the JSDF, emigrate, or buy airsoft.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Firearm_and_Sword_Possession_Control_Law
What?
Australia had mandatory confiscation of ALL guns basically, and heavily restricted new sales. No guns, no shootings duh
The US has no such blanket ban, and so these kind of VOLUNTARY buybacks are generally pretty unhelpful for reducing gun crime and/or mass shootings. The buyback may ‘take off the streets’ X number of gun from a community, but if there’s still 5 million NICS background checks for new gun sales each year, then the US buyback are not achieving the stated goal of safer communities. The same money and time could be spent on better programs like Oakland CA is doing currently
Up front, I broadly support almost any aid short of NBC weapons to Ukraine. Territorial exchange by invasion needs to be non-negotiable, and Ukraine should be the one who decides if/when they’ve had enough war, not us or Russia
JD Vance is reprehensible and talking out of both sides, but there’s some truth to this idea. If you look back at the deeper history of Ukraine, the Donbas wasn’t a part of Ukraine under Kievan Russ or the precursor dynasty. The area is very ethnically Russian & Russophone (absolutely artificially boosted by prior pseudo-genicidal policy of Russification, as also in Poland) and if you look at the census data, the electoral history, and where the separatists draw recruits from, it’s very split east/south-east of the Dnipro river.
If the government in Kyiv (rightfully) refuses to give territory and end to the war, they are only left with Russian capitulation or a NK/SK style permanent standoff over their own DMZ. The survey data indicates the Ukranian people are willing to go all the way to Crimea, which is mirrored by Kyiv policy, but viable is that for Ukraine militarily? Frontline progress is steady but slow, and Ukraine shares a lot of the skewed age demographics with Russia that make a long term war difficult on manpower alone.
I love these false economies that some corporate bean counter thinks saves the company money
Because you see, whenever I see this trash in a cubicle, I lovingly build my own 8-ply, using more paper and burning company time
This essentially. What a way to throw your struggling nation into ruin, forcing the next generations into minor power/alliance member status. A former leader in space exploration! …is now struggling to build next gen tanks and buying hardware from pariah states… failing the same shit they did in 2008.
Having lived in the UK and near the US southern border, they’re both great. Charro and frijoles are sublime, and Heinz baked beans are a superb side dish for potato or meat.
I still can’t enjoy sweet BBQ beans though, Bush’s just tastes like corn syrup with fiber blobs 🤮
