Liberals: No one can even run in the primary against our geriatric dear leader since it could cause a rift in the party
Also liberals: This anti semite is too dangerous, we must save the voters from there decision with our favorite sex criminal.
Honestly that may be the best scenario for Zohran, Cuomo and Adam’s would split the corrupt corporate centrist vote and give him an easy win.
Probably not actually. All this was because trump was opening up talks for another Iran nuclear deal and Israel wanted to shoot down those talks, literally. Considering Biden didn’t do shit in his 4 years to try and get another deal, and kamala was saying she’d have the same foreign policy, I doubt kamala would’ve tried anything either.
From what I’ve heard, their strategy has been to stall at being 6 months away from a bomb. They could’ve finished their program a while ago if they wanted to, North Korea did it with far less resources. They don’t do it because:
They still want to be somewhat ready though for situations like this where full scale war with Israel is inevitable so if they can survive the war for 6 months they can do a test, establish nuclear sovereignty and get Israel to back off.
Yeah, cause governments tend to implode when the countries arch enemy attacks them…
Hamas hasn’t even imploded, and the people have way more reason to blame them for their current situation than the Iranians can blame their government for pursuing a nuclear program that most of the country agreed with.
No matter how unpopular a government is there, they’re still going to be more popular than Israel, and people will rally around any flag to fight their flagrant aggression.
It’s not that borrowing money is free, zero interest rates means the government pays zero interest for its loans, not companies. It does put downward pressure on interest rates companies pay but they’re still going to have to pay a couple percent apy.
The reason zero interest rates are good for tech is because it forces capital to seek more long-term and risky investments. If I have a lot of money and can get 6% apy from loaning it to the US government, the safest bet on the market, why would I invest in something else? If i can’t get any money from loaning to the government (zero interest rates), and i cant get much from loaning it to other institutions because of that downward pressure, then maybe I’ll buy some more risky tech stocks because it’s possible for that company to grow more then the 1-2% id get from just lending my money. Most of techs financing is done through selling stock, not loans.
Yeah, since it’s “peace time” and less risk there’s probably a decent chunk of the armed forces who are just in it for the perks ( free college, Healthcare) and don’t believe in it and are trying to serve there time and get out and not make a career of it.
They aren’t cops who almost always want to be cops and make it a core part of their identity and belief system. They aren’t allowed on lemmy.
A masked policing agency isn’t anything but a cult
Eh, a lot of Mexican and central American police need to be masked some times or the cartels will murder there families, so there are some valid reasons. There hasn’t been any cases of ICE agents being targeted outside some possible “attacks” on social media as far as i know so they’ve got no excuse.
It’s like Caesar and pompey if there was 10x more lead in the water supply
Probably also killed a lot of elderly or immunocompromised adults since he lobbied against a covid vaccine becoming open source.
another of these clearly illegal things
They seem to be actually doing work. Yeah it’s illegal to work without authorization but by the same logic an undocumented migrant working is illegal. Sure but I wouldn’t argue it’s immoral or would make them a rogue state.
There’s plenty of other horrible shit that north Korea is doing, but I wouldn’t put this in that bucket, this is probably the most honest work they can do considering they’re sanctioned by nearly every country.
by perfectly standard measures kokain is way more dangerous then alcohol
No it’s not, by your perceptions of those measures it may be but experts disagree.
You also have to consider deaths from collateral damage, eg. Driving under the influence. Alcohol tops those charts by a lot and causes a lot of innocent deaths.
science defying stupidity
The scientists are on his side. Most drug harm experts agree that cocaine is on the same level as alcohol
A lot of drug harm experts agree
Idk about the claim of it being illegal because it’s from Latin America, but a lot of racism was involved in deciding to make it illegal. There was a moral panic at the time that it was giving black men super human strength and unctrollable lust for white women.
If it was a comedy I would give it a pass, but this episode wasn’t, or at least it was a bad one. The only sort of funny scene was the sermon. The rest was young boys slowly dying.
Thanks for the references.
Fair enough, seems there’s not full consensus on this. Just wanted to point out that there is real science backing the idea that saturated fat is bad and it’s not just some contrived myth by a bunch of politicians like OP said.
I get the focus is supposed to be on Elijah and how bad he is but the background is the lost cause myth and sympathizing with the common confederate troops. I guess you could say they didn’t want to make the confederates look bad so Elijah could look horrible in comparison, but you could’ve had Elijah just be even more racist then the troops.
Like the only sort of funny part where he gives the sermon, if it were realistic he would’ve gone full race baiting and go one about how the unions gonna come and free the n*****s and slavery is in the Bible etc. to rile up the troops. But in this mythical confederacy racism and slavery don’t exist which is ahistorical.
They gave it back after doing a war crime and executing prisoners of war. They also executed them with a fucking gattling gun which is just cruel. I think they were trying to get you to sympathize with the confederates about to die instead of the northerners who were killing an already defeated foe.
if it was a serious show I’d agree but it’s satire
I agree, righteous gemstones generally whitewashes the southern church and rarely shows the racism and homophobia that would be present. But I give it a pass because it’s funny, this episode wasn’t funny. The only joke of the show was him giving a bad sermon to those troops, the rest was just sad imagery of confederate boys dying. This episode was them trying to be serious and it didn’t work IMO.
For anyone wondering waymos (Google driverless cars) handle rain just fine as far as I’ve seen, and they have service in Austin. Idk why you would ever choose to take a tesla taxi.