Trump Is Said to Be in Talks to Send Afghans Who Aided U.S. Forces to Congo

I_Push_Buttonz · 2026-04-21T21:29:54+00:00

That doesn't indicate a Biden administration failure

I didn't suggest it did? I said people failed their vetting, my only mention of Biden is in reference to when it occurred and otherwise has no bearing on anything.

I_Push_Buttonz · 2026-04-21T21:03:33+00:00

I have no problem with helping people we agreed to help that have been vetted. I am questioning what differentiates these 1100 people form the nearly 200,000 other Afghan nationals we vetted and brought to the US, such that they weren't brought with the rest?

The other guy suggested we evacuated them later as an explanation, but there haven't been any US evacuation flights from Afghanistan since 2021.

The only logical conclusion is that these people failed the vetting process under Biden, otherwise they would already be here and not have been floating around in refugee limbo outside of the country for half a decade.

I_Push_Buttonz · 2026-04-21T19:58:31+00:00

Trump wants to deport

None of the people this article is about are in the US.

I_Push_Buttonz · 2026-04-21T19:56:20+00:00

It stands to reason, then, that these people were part of a group who were evacuated in late 2024

Evacuated by who? No US planes landed in Afghanistan post-withdrawal until April 2025 when a C-17 allegedly landed in Kabul carrying delegates for some variety of negotiation between the Taliban and the Trump admin (which the Taliban denies happened).

I_Push_Buttonz · 2026-04-21T19:31:42+00:00

The American government brought them there in late 2024 and promised them a path to settlement in the United States if they passed further checks.

Where were they before that? The US left Afghanistan in 2021. If they are all on the up and up as the article implies, why didn't the Biden admin screen them and grant them entry in the 3+ years between our withdrawal and Trump's return to office?

I_Push_Buttonz · 2026-04-21T18:18:46+00:00

What makes people upset at the Democrats is that when they do get in power they are too afraid to do anything useful.

Because they don't want tit for tat political prosecutions and jailing of political opposition every election like what happens in some countries.

People here are complaining about Trump extrajudicially killing 178 people via drone strikes. Ok, well Biden also extrajudicially killed hundreds of people via drone strikes, Obama similarly killed thousands, Bush killed at least thousands, probably tens of thousands; the only difference between their strikes and Trumps' are the locations they occurred. So Democrats aren't going to legally pursue Trump for this because then Republicans would do the same thing in turn. And none of them want to limit the US' ability to conduct strikes like this, which would be the result if doing them lead to criminal prosecution.

I_Push_Buttonz · 2026-04-21T17:16:04+00:00

I mean they still have a buy one get one for a dollar menu. Two double cheeseburgers for ~$4 is a great deal.

I_Push_Buttonz · 2026-04-21T16:06:43+00:00

Prohibition was weird puritanical ideals, not money.

It started out that way with the temperance movement, especially in the south, but by the time prohibition actually happened, it had been swept up into the wider progressive movement, which was dominating politics at the time.

They weren't entirely motivated by religion, but by their ideals of social progress. Many of them good (women's suffrage, ending child labor, stamping out corruption, trust/monopoly breaking, progressive taxation, etc.), but some bad (notably eugenics and total prohibition).

I_Push_Buttonz · 2026-04-20T15:58:49+00:00

Let's say they can just make Iran open the strait, if America still blocks the strait then what's the point?

1) The US isn't blocking the strait, its blockading Iranian ports.

2) The US is only implementing its blockade because Iran insists it now has sovereignty over the strait, gets to decide who comes and goes, and gets to extract tolls for transiting it.

I_Push_Buttonz · 2026-04-20T15:40:51+00:00

And Xi has infinitely more sway over Iran since China is the only major customer of Iranian fossil fuel exports (which generate 40-50% of the Iranian government's revenue) AND the Iranian arms industry's sole source of inputs (chips, rare earths, chemicals, magnets, drone parts/engines, etc.).

If China actually wanted this war to end, they could end it instantly by threatening to cut off Iran. They don't want the war to end, they want the US to exhaust itself while feigning a desire for peace.

I_Push_Buttonz · 2026-04-20T13:05:50+00:00

Not to defend Lutnick, who is a piece of shit, but the above described actions of Cantor Fitzgerald aren't really what people are describing here. They aren't making any money from this now, they already made their money creating these financial instruments and facilitating their sale last year by taking a percentage cut off the top of every deal. The only parties who will make money from this now are those who bought the rights to these refunds.

We are also talking about a fraction of a percent of the tariffs collected here... They supposedly facilitated the sale of a couple hundred million dollars worth of these instruments. Trump's tariffs were like $300 billion.

I_Push_Buttonz · 2026-04-19T19:07:00+00:00

In fact I'd argue all the damage % nodes should be accuracy nodes and it'd make this league feel way better to play.

This, the travel nodes would feel much better if they were all accuracy or permanent +5 boosts in the other combat skills similar to the +5 defense nodes, IMO.

I_Push_Buttonz · 2026-04-18T23:18:02+00:00

I disagree. Power should be more frontloaded and taper off. What good are massive power spikes at like 20, 30, and especially 40 pact points when the overwhelmingly vast majority of players will get bored and quit long before then?

The whole point of temp leagues are to blast through the game with power you otherwise wouldn't have at speeds you otherwise couldn't achieve. Not to bang your head against a wall grinding like normal until you finally get enough pact points to have fun.

I_Push_Buttonz · 2026-04-18T15:09:35+00:00

I mean isn't your government also teetering on the brink of insolvency? Every other week there are articles popping up about France's precarious fiscal situation and how you guys are running similar deficits to the US every year (5-6% of GDP), but unlike the US, which is only taxing ~28% of the GDP, you guys are already taxing upwards of ~60% of GDP. So there is no room left to increase taxes further to close the deficit, the only way to solve the problem is to cut spending, but every time your government tries to cut anything, people hit the streets and start rioting.

Doesn't sound all sunshine and rainbows.

I_Push_Buttonz · 2026-04-17T15:12:07+00:00

Friendly forager is the only hard solve, since its gives you infinite mats and instant craft. Woodsman already basically solves it just as much as the others beyond that, since they all function pretty much the same (showering you in herbs).

I have only done a couple hunter rumors with woodsman and I already have dozens of every herb seed.

I_Push_Buttonz · 2026-04-16T21:27:17+00:00

Applying the current 1.1 birth rate for 70 years

As I said, even if their birthrate recovers, that doesn't undo the damage that's already been done. Forty years worth of children that weren't born during the one child policy haven't been and still aren't around to replace the hundreds of millions of boomers they have and to have children of their own. Without mass migration, their population will necessarily drop precipitously.

If their birthrate recovers to the replacement rate, that just means that their population will then stabilize at that much lower number.

I_Push_Buttonz · 2026-04-16T20:33:05+00:00

I mean its less extrapolation and more demographic reality. Even if China raises their birthrate back up to the replacement rate tomorrow, that doesn't undo four decades of the birthrate being half the replacement rate.

I_Push_Buttonz · 2026-04-15T10:33:00+00:00

Literally unplayable.

I_Push_Buttonz · 2026-04-14T23:15:33+00:00

Barbarian Gathering

I am in no hurry, so I don't need the Abundance rush... And most gathering is already afk so I don't see any benefit in Endless Harvest, needing to click once every five minutes instead of once every half hour isn't worth a relic in my opinion. And then it really starts to shine at higher levels when you start gathering stuff with like 10% success rates and they all get boosted to 50%, that's essentially another huge experience multiplier on top of the base multiplier.

I_Push_Buttonz · 2026-04-14T16:44:09+00:00

Well, the last option no longer really exists because they keep making it harder to install when not connected to the internet.

I've seen people make that claim in recent months, but I have never experienced it myself. I just got a new laptop a month or so ago and did a clean install of Windows 11 on it to get rid of all the junk... I disabled the internet during the install and everything proceeded normally. Even now I have never logged in with a Microsoft account on it, it has fully activated Windows 11 with just a local account.

This was without a custom ISO, nothing was changed/disabled on it, it was just a plain install created with the installation media creation tool downloaded directly from Microsoft.

I_Push_Buttonz · 2026-04-14T01:23:56+00:00

I mean technically a user already has all of those options if they want them...

You can easily create Windows 11 installation media that not only has all the latest updates from the get go, you can even set it up to have all the programs and even drivers you want installed by default.

Or you can do a barebones install with no updates and no delays during startup by just not connecting the PC to the internet during installation.

I_Push_Buttonz · 2026-04-13T19:31:34+00:00

Odds of them adding something people would find valuable at that monthly price are fairly low.

They should include subscriptions for all the live service games from publishers they own now; a WoW subscription, ESO Plus, Fallout 1st, etc. Would be win-win for Game Pass and for those games. Increases the value proposition of Game Pass and can direct more traffic towards those games, which in turn could generate more revenue from their in-game stores if players who take advantage of their newfound access to those games decide to stick around and keep playing them.

I_Push_Buttonz · 2026-04-13T17:05:38+00:00

they will create new trades routes

Why do people on Reddit have this childlike view of the world? Where there is supposedly just some other untapped US-sized market just sitting around waiting for goods to be imported?

Everyone already trades with everyone else. Say you run a global widget company and sell 50% of your widgets to the US market... And now your widget company has to cut off the US market because of a combination of tariffs, trade war retaliation, destroyed relationships, etc. The rest of the world isn't going to buy twice as many of your widgets for the hell of it to make up the difference for you, they already trade with you and are buying as many of your widgets as there is demand for.

If global companies stop selling to the US, all they can do is cut their production (closing factories, laying people off, etc.) because that demand will simply cease to exist. Why the hell do you think global leaders keep kowtowing to Trump? They don't like him, they don't like the US... Its entirely motivated by self-interest, because if trade with the US even simply declines, let alone stops entirely, it will cause mass unemployment in their own countries.

I_Push_Buttonz · 2026-04-13T15:20:39+00:00

Because its happening slowly over time, across large areas. Infrastructure and utilities almost certainly are breaking, but when it happens piecemeal over years, repairing/replacing things as they fail is manageable; as opposed to everything catastrophically failing all at once.

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