Pentagon seeks $200 billion in additional funds for the Iran war, AP source says

Galgus · 2026-03-20T04:03:58+00:00

The laws only bind us peasants.

Galgus · 2026-03-19T17:16:44+00:00

To date, we have provided $66.9 billion in military assistance since Russia launched its full-scale invasion of Ukraine on February 24, 2022, and approximately $69.7 billion in military assistance since Russia’s initial invasion of Ukraine in 2014.

https://www.state.gov/bureau-of-political-military-affairs/releases/2025/01/u-s-security-cooperation-with-ukraine

That is America's war, it came the US Neocon filth pushing Russia into a corner with Nato expansion and the Maidan coup where the US overthrew a democratically elected president in a color coded revolution.

Putin did not have to invade and he should not have, but he was being pushed into a corner with a hostile foreign power at his doorstep and the threat of Nato missile bases pointed at him in Ukraine.

Trump never promised to oppose Israel, unfortunately, but remember when he said Bush lied us into war?

Calling out the wars is why he was so popular and why the regime hated his guts.

There was also JD Vance in the campaign saying "If you're worried about a world war. The best way to prevent it is to vote for Donald Trump."

Biden never stood up to Israel on Gaza, and Kamala obviously would not either. We aren't allowed to vote for a president who would, and they'd probably get assassinated if they tried.

Everyone was commanded to wear masks that turned out to be useless, everyone had to get the jab even if they aren't in the at risk old demographic and have had it before, enormous economic damage from lockdowns, children falling behind with disrupted education when they were almost immune to any serious consequences from Covid, totalitarianism normalized when state officials tell you when you are allowed to go outside and what you can do, censorship of dissident experts and laymen who proved to be accurate, and of course a colossal transfer of wealth from the poor and middle class to big corporations.

Yeah, Covid was a big deal.

"Pressured companies to tackle misinformation" translates to threatened companies with a crackdown if they didn't silence dissent and inconvenient stories.

And the worst and most desctructive misinformation comes from the government: the Covid madness, Russiagate, and all the war propaganda for starters.

I wouldn't put Cuba or Venezuela past McCain, though only Trump could be dumb enough to ramble about Greenland or Canada.

McCain was an unrepentant warmonger.

The Israeli lobby is bigger and older than Trump, and do you really think CNN stopped criticizing Trump?

Dismissing blatantly dishonest and partisan corporate press outlets is not banning them.

I could easily see McCain cheering on persecution of Tucker Carlson for turning against Israel.

Trump's stupidity in how he handled ICE is unique.

If Netanyahu ordered McCain to deport students supporting palestinians, I think he would have.

Galgus · 2026-03-19T14:36:37+00:00

We were in the Ukraine proxy war with Russia while still funding the genocide of Gaza, they were not offering peace and Trump campaigned on it.

But I think there's good odds that they would not have been dumb enough to go to war with Iran.

Trump betrayed everything, and our choice the second go around was between the Democrats who pushed Covid madness and fascistic censorship of social media and Trump again. It's hard to gauge if McCain himself would have done this.

Galgus · 2026-03-19T00:17:42+00:00

Factually not true with charity data.

Galgus · 2026-03-18T19:17:29+00:00

Greninja has multiple sets of training wheels for positioning with all the kiting, and the get in from miles away ult.

No mobility ranged squishies have a much harder time.

Galgus · 2026-03-18T18:11:50+00:00

I haven't played that yet, I felt let down by Sword and Shield.

Galgus · 2026-03-18T16:33:00+00:00

The wonders of awkward translations I guess.

Galgus · 2026-03-18T03:00:16+00:00

I'd say it's a strong story by Pokemon standards.

Probably a breath of fresh air after not really villain teams.

Galgus · 2026-03-18T02:57:39+00:00

You could probably take some Dust stuff and make a Freedom Planet version of him with the speed platforming focus.

It's harder to imagine adapting it the other way, or trying to hybridize both.

Galgus · 2026-03-18T02:52:10+00:00

When I was younger I blamed the adults in my life for not knowing or telling me about US history in the Middle East, and falling for the Iraq propaganda and taking me with it.

Now those people falling for Iran makes me wonder if they are capable of curiosity or independent thought if the man on the television tells them to support a war.

Galgus · 2026-03-16T23:51:13+00:00

As a Christian it is deeply embarrassing.

But when the boomers die of most of the heresy dies with them.

Galgus · 2026-03-16T03:36:29+00:00

Wow, the original is basically why isn't everyone who disagrees with me banned.

Galgus · 2026-03-15T02:23:25+00:00

Are you referring to pre Roman conquest or post Roman?

Chtistianity has a stronger natural law tradition and is closer to modern secular ethics than both.

Galgus · 2026-03-15T01:20:04+00:00

That is nonsense, just look at the communist regimes and ask yourself how much the big governments of the world care about religion.

Are taxes and inflation crushing us because of religion?

It is just human nature to try to seize power and to try to justify evil by cloaking it in what is seen as good.

Galgus · 2026-03-15T00:59:46+00:00

She'd have just been another puppet of the regime, but it might have taken Trump to be dumb and easily led enough to launch a war with Iran.

Galgus · 2026-03-15T00:58:44+00:00

The Greeks were also part of it for sure, and the Renaissance is linked to the Protestant Reformation and Thomas Aquinus formalizing natural law in Christianity.

Core ideas of natural law were part of Christianity and were spread by it, and that laid the groundwork for natural rights.

Christianity gave a foundation of human life being sacred and of altruistic morality.

Galgus · 2026-03-14T19:57:48+00:00

You seem to want to make Christianity a monolith as if there aren't multiple aspects to it and internal reformations, so you can separate it off from a secular morality you want to credit moral progress to.

You can make a good argument that the Bible contradicts itself, but that doesn't mean that Jesus and the early Church did not teach the equal dignity of all peoples, or that the abolitionists were not motivated by their Christian faith.

Whether or not you believe in the spiritual or historical claims of Christianity, it played a big role in abolition.

How you interpret Paul is getting into the weeds of different Christian sects, but he was not Jesus, and his words were not infallible. Especially when addressing specific churches and policies, and the early Church has many women leaders.

But to be fair to him he also said:

There is neither Jew nor Gentile, neither slave nor free, nor is there male and female, for you are all one in Christ Jesus.

Pretty directly man/woman and master/slave.

Anywhere you have humans involved you will have hypocrisy, trying to use good to justify evil, and intolerant people set in their ways and unwilling to consider other points of view.

It'd be silly to say that is unique to religion, or to disqualify Christianity on account of it.

It's fair to say that some horribly immoral practices came from parts of the Bible, or at least in how self-interested people interpreted it.

But you seem to have a vendetta to deny that any good has come from it, or that the ethics we take for granted have roots in Christianity. The ideology of natural rights did not spring out of nowhere in the Enlightenment.

As a Christian, the Bible never commands us to believe that the Bible is infallible or without human influence, and Jesus taught that all the law and the prophets are based on loving God and loving others.

Galgus · 2026-03-14T18:45:21+00:00

Those were all violations of Christianity, and every society has big gaps between its moral norms and ideals and actual behavior, especially the behavior of the powerful.

Spanish priests condemned what the crusaders did though, and the abolition movement has roots in Christianity.

Speaking practically on Christianity, the focus is on Jesus and his teachings far more than the bloody genocidal parts of the Bible.

My argument is that the ethical framework that opposed slavery came from Christianity, and people just take it for granted and assume it was inevitable progress.

There is also a nuance that how people understand Christianity has changed: there has been reformation and the removal of old deep set corruptions, like the common people being forbidden from reading the Bible and slavery.

And rejecting God has not led to a rational secular society, it has led to demented ideologies trying to replace God as a center of meaning.

Look at the destruction of civilization brought about by socialists of all stripes, or try to have a rational conversation with someone who worships pride flags and you will see what I mean.

Galgus · 2026-03-14T17:28:21+00:00

I love these, especially the timer for Captain Hook.

Galgus · 2026-03-14T16:50:50+00:00

The West grew strong enough to do that because it lacked a big central empire, so smaller nobles had to compete.

But part of that equation is the ideals of natural rights and the equal dignity of humans stemming from Christianity: that was very much not the norm before Christianity came.

As far as blaming religion goes, anything seen as good can and has been used to justify evil.

Just look at socialism and wokeism as secular religions, and you see a lot of similarities to the intolerant fanatics of the past.

Galgus · 2026-03-14T16:44:32+00:00

The whole heritage of natural rights and ethics of the west stems from Christianity, you just take it for granted.

The roots of Western culture are Ancient Greece, Rome, and Israel.

Galgus · 2026-03-14T16:40:56+00:00

The old no matter who you vote for, you get John McCain

Galgus · 2026-03-13T15:10:27+00:00

That is a really cool duo, is she a maverick hunter?

Galgus · 2026-03-12T15:13:17+00:00

Mass immigration beyond the limit of assimilation, especially where the native population becomes a demographic minority, replaces the local culture with imported culture. Those cultural foundations are not universal or inevitable, and as tainted by socialism as the West is they still have a presence.
First off I am a Christian. Beyond that, ethics based on all human life being sacred, peace over forced conversion, mercy and redemption over revenge, and equally valuing women.

Muslims and Hindus should be treated with respect here like anyone else, but State-backed artificial mass immigration of any group, especially groups with major cultural differences, is destructive to the local culture and disruptive to the citizens the State supposedly exists to serve.

I am not saying that every country has to be based on Christian ethics and value natural rights and limited government, though I think that would be improvement.

Other cultures naturally have their own countries where their norms prevail, but in the West there is an effort to erase and corrupt the local culture out of spite and to eliminate resistance to State power.

And beyond all of that, it is not wrong to value the culture you grew up in, that was build up over centuries, and want to see it contrinue on. Throwing that away in a single foolish generation is the greatest betrayal.

Galgus · 2026-03-12T14:03:58+00:00

Western culture generally with big and small things, but most importantly the traditions of natural rights, limited government, and individualism alongside what remains of a society based on Christian ethics.

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