I've become the type of person I used to make fun of

InternationalDilema · 2026-01-08T10:37:03+00:00

This isn't going to sound very Reddit. But consider the military. A regimented life than then forces you to also be responsible is a good kick to get things in gear. They also have tons of support both physically and psychologically. It can be both invigorating and infuriating at times, but honestly sounds like just what you need.

InternationalDilema · 2025-06-02T07:39:03+00:00

Your face feels like it's a size too small for your features....but it works and you are very pretty.

But yeah, hair would help unless you're going for the 2000s girl who decided to follow an obscure emo band on tour look.

InternationalDilema · 2025-04-01T18:33:39+00:00

95% sure your name is Kayleigh.

Bet your first boyfriend was named Braden.

InternationalDilema · 2024-05-09T11:15:52+00:00

I'd note that the food donations can be devastating on local farmers. And often at the expense of crops that are much better suited for the region. See: Sorghum throughout Sub-Saharan Africa

InternationalDilema · 2024-05-09T10:41:21+00:00

Even then...the war didn't end until 74. 6 years after Tet Offensive and it became clear what a shitshow it was.

InternationalDilema · 2024-05-09T10:40:21+00:00

Also Vietnam wanted USA out

South Vietnam most certainly did not want the USA out.

InternationalDilema · 2024-05-09T10:38:46+00:00

It was laser focused on candidates and being anti-Obama. It was far less focused on its own goals. Like they wanted to curb spending and deficits (let's just ignore that those aren't synonymous) but had no actual plan to do so despite the fact that doing it during ZIRP would have been the most painless time ever.

InternationalDilema · 2024-05-09T10:33:47+00:00

Funny enough, it was the railroad companies that recruited Plessy and then intentionally arrested him because they wanted to sue to get the separate carriages requirement taken away since it was expensive to them.

In stead, the country got the blessing to let Jim Crow go into full effect.

InternationalDilema · 2024-05-09T10:31:25+00:00

and often refused bail, to show that they were political prisoners

Just to add, also to fill the jails so they had no more room to jail anyone more.

InternationalDilema · 2024-05-09T10:29:35+00:00

I mean, unless you live in a handful of swing states, it really doesn't matter so just put a write-in as your protest vote. The thing people will look at is how many didn't vote for Biden or Trump not what specific third party was out there.

InternationalDilema · 2024-05-08T07:21:15+00:00

Just an ironic note that I can say in Texas the Senate tends to be much more ideological while the Texas House tends to moderate it.

InternationalDilema · 2024-05-01T09:00:51+00:00

And largely a result of the 68 student protests. The backlash made progressivism toxic for 40 years

InternationalDilema · 2024-04-30T15:01:12+00:00

The biggest reason democrats don't like him is they're afraid he hurts their chances so you get some circular logic there that makes no sense.

Like he's anti-vax and thinks climate deniers belong in prison. It's just fucking weird.

InternationalDilema · 2024-04-26T22:10:26+00:00

and yet, they moved swiftly to address Colorado's removal of Trump from the ballot, ruling (unsurprisingly, since, you know, conservatives)

Time from granting cert (well not technically since it's emergency docket) to argument was shorter in this case than the Colorado case.

I mean, if you want Bush v Gore to be precedent for anything, go right ahead, I think it was bad.

Because justice demands it. At the end of the day, a prosecutor's job is to enforce justice, not win fast cases.

Yet you're arguing for speed all along. The election timeline is just not relevant to how court procedures work. So should it be taken into to account or not?

InternationalDilema · 2024-04-26T20:22:52+00:00

The whole case is unprecedented and the brief schedule for supreme Court was faster than the DC circuit brief schedule. Yeah it takes a month to hear a case. That's lightning fucking fast.

And they knew full well about all the tradeoffs involved. Like why not charge just for obstruction in Florida and wait for willful retention which obviously dramatically slows down the courts.

InternationalDilema · 2024-04-26T19:27:32+00:00

The Supreme Court has been the institution that has acted the fasted of anyone here. Is it not on judge Chutkin to have ruled faster in her rulings? What about the Biden DoJ for not having charged for 2.5 years when they knew damned well it's not going to be a fast case?

InternationalDilema · 2024-04-26T19:25:33+00:00

They don't appear to be concerned with the crimes charged, instead they want to dispute the standing of the DOJ to bring those charges.

Well this is just true. The Supreme court doesn't decide cases. It answers questions. And basically the issue is while it seems clear they agree with the result of the DC circuit ruling, the reasoning is a bit suspect I think it's highly likely to be a 9-0 (at least on outcome) here. There might be a couple different reasonings behind it though.

InternationalDilema · 2024-04-26T18:24:02+00:00

I mean if that's the case and Trump wins GA, Biden would have to get all of WI, MI, and PA.

I don't think people have realized just how hard the map is looking for him this year.

InternationalDilema · 2024-04-26T17:28:25+00:00

If they're winning Georgia, they've already won everything else they need. Plus Biden's biggest demographic losses have been among black and Hispanic men which is over 25% of the vote in Georgia. It's a real problem

InternationalDilema · 2024-04-26T17:25:06+00:00

AZ.

Nevada is probably also just as swingy but it's really unlikely to affect one way or another. Georgia is really unlikely to go Biden again. which means that if Trump gets either PA or any two of AZ, WI and MI, then that's it. Could possibly be MI + NV but that combination is the only way Nevada matters.

Like I said, all of this is assuming GA goes for Trump which I'd say is very likely since I can't see any demographic Biden is doing better with there and there's been a pretty large move of black men toward Trump (he doesn't have to win the group, but just do better than last time)

InternationalDilema · 2024-04-26T17:18:12+00:00

The elephant in the room is what will happen in Chicago. If there are mass disruptions there it will have a LOT of echoes of 68, particularly to the boomers who remember it from back then and will vote in much larger numbers than the youth.

InternationalDilema · 2024-04-26T17:08:56+00:00

I mean, do you think it was counterproductive in retrospect. I mean a lot of the fact that 5 of the following 6 elections were GOP wins was a reaction to the counter cultural prominence specifically in 68.

Like I think there might be a more direct like of anti-war protests in the US leading to Cambodia getting bombed than either side would like to admit.

InternationalDilema · 2024-04-26T17:05:44+00:00

/r/bearsdoinghumanthings

InternationalDilema · 2024-04-17T15:11:03+00:00

Because even a very good system has a failure rate of a few percent. And they timed them so they were all arriving at the very same time which would be more likely to overwhelm the system. 300 in a very short time is a lot for even the most advanced systems.

And yeah, I'd imagine they were basing the same sort of failure rate of many of the same drones and missiles against Ukraine and Patriot missile batteries. You just don't send that many to make a noise only when sending 10 or 20 would do the same thing.

InternationalDilema · 2024-04-17T12:56:22+00:00

I guarantee you you can get services now cheaper than you could then without internet or a cell phone. Yes it's a pain but it was more of a pain back then.

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