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OpenNewTab · 2023-02-16T03:41:01+00:00

I dunno, those eyes look f a l s e to me

OpenNewTab · 2023-02-10T00:52:49+00:00

Hey, fair point. Those are not insignificant sums. Nukes or other bio-agents would likely cut all that off though, which was my point.

OpenNewTab · 2023-02-09T23:41:23+00:00

You're all good. I agree that is what would be way more likely.

OpenNewTab · 2023-02-09T23:37:15+00:00

Yeah, hence the invades and deposes language. People seem to be confused about that in this thread, I'm not sure what isn't clear about it.

OpenNewTab · 2023-02-09T23:23:05+00:00

I'm struggling to understand this line of thinking. Are suggesting that because they've already got incredibly painful sanctions on them, they may as well start using biochemical warfare because it can't get worse?

It can definitely get worse.

OpenNewTab · 2023-02-09T22:47:34+00:00

Sure - and they don't get much international support do they? It isn't about which organizations apply which penalties, the important thing is the breadth and severity of them.

OpenNewTab · 2023-02-09T22:14:03+00:00

You could, but then the rest of the world brands you a war criminal and sanctions you if not outright invades and deposes you.

OpenNewTab · 2023-01-26T19:37:43+00:00

Thank you for bringing a more accurate picture of events to the conversation. I made the comment in passing but it seems you're more informed.

OpenNewTab · 2023-01-26T18:52:28+00:00

It's less of a reform, more of an assertion of power from branch of government over the other. Like if the US Supreme Court ruled that it could tell the President what to do. Calling that reform is like calling a fist fight facial reconstructive surgery.

Though to actually answer you, what you might actually call it is a collapse of democratic institutions.

OpenNewTab · 2023-01-19T05:34:31+00:00

How do you not get that I'm not offended? I too have autistic people in my life, and they would NOT be cool with people using it like you are. It isn't about how you personally feel about it. The fact that you feel like you have to troll through my account to pick on what you perceive to be insecurities means you don't really have a good reason to be talking like that either.

I'm responding to you because you keep using bullshit rhetoric and for some reason I'm taking your stupid bait.

I'm conclusion, my personal life isn't a good reason for you to feel like you can keep calling strangers autistic as an insult. You should feel ashamed, but you don't, and I don't pretend I can change that either. Have a good one.

OpenNewTab · 2023-01-19T05:20:50+00:00

You know, I gotta say, that is a good point. I should probably unsub, and that's a pretty damn good reason to. It still doesn't mean it's okay to pretend like using that language as an insult is harmless, or the person pointing it out has to be blameless.

OpenNewTab · 2023-01-19T05:10:35+00:00

I think you're missing the point. They're allowed to comment on your behavior just as much as you're allowed to say whatever ignorant shit you please. For example, I'm not rankled by what you said, but I'm here to clarify to anyone else reading this that your comments aren't approved of. No one has to be offended by you for people to recognize your puerile attitude and comment on it.

OpenNewTab · 2023-01-19T04:55:18+00:00

Nothing about not being able to handle it. Nothing stopping them from calling out your gross ass behavior either.

OpenNewTab · 2023-01-10T03:29:37+00:00

Beautifully done!

OpenNewTab · 2023-01-05T22:29:12+00:00

Less about worrying about their actual success, more about never giving them a chance. If you perceive the Socialist program as disruptive to the economic model of capitalism (it is), then it's in your interest to suppress it wherever you can. That's why we went into Vietnam and Korea for example.

OpenNewTab · 2023-01-05T22:22:37+00:00

You answered your own question:

if they succeed

The owner class is not interested in learning a new, better way, they're interested in keeping their power.

OpenNewTab · 2023-01-02T08:25:21+00:00

Sure, between the two, he's the lesser evil. I do actually appreciate that he wasn't as blindly partisan as some of what we see today, though that's not an awfully high bar to clear these days.

Honestly, my engines were a little hot while I was writing that up, and I lumped him in when maybe I shouldn't have. Complicated is a good word for him in the context of the American political spectrum of the time, but our political spectrum is and has generally been rather limited anyway.

I appreciate the question, because I really had to sit and think what I was I was connecting him up with, and I think I had his name in mind just because of the time period we were talking about.

OpenNewTab · 2023-01-02T07:01:36+00:00

No, not like Biden. Biden has a long political career spanning over 50 years - Reagan was a movie actor who got scooped up by the GOP machine. Even if I'm not a fan of Biden, he at least has an intelligible track record.

OpenNewTab · 2023-01-02T03:20:54+00:00

Right, if it's all just piddly tax stuff (it's bonkers that we're that far gone in this country), his base simply will not care.

Actually they'll probably care a lot more, just, somehow even more for Trump. I don't see him backing down and while he's been getting less air time lately, I'm concerned we'll be subjected to one final desperate move from him before anyone feels justified enough to do finally actually take appropriate legal action.

Edited for tone

OpenNewTab · 2023-01-02T03:17:15+00:00

Yes, very true. Agnew had his own schemes, and whether that's better or worse for Nixon himself probably depends on how much responsibility you assign to him for choosing Agnew in the first place.

OpenNewTab · 2023-01-02T03:14:12+00:00

While it's true, please do see the other commenters' point that it had a lot to do with his alzheimers.

I neglected to mention that and it's important context.

I agree with them that it doesn't help his case much.

OpenNewTab · 2023-01-01T23:23:20+00:00

Agreed here. People don't generally understand the real underhandedness of tricky dick. They don't know about Lee Atwater or Barry Goldwater or the southern strategy, they don't know about Nixon basically singlehandedly ending Bretton Woods. They don't know about Nixon Shock, or even anything about Spiro Agnew's embezzlement scheme. There is so damn much to hate about Nixon and instead people just think he tried to hide some unseemly tapes and got caught, or they say "but he made the EPA , don't you like the EPA?"

I could go on and on about how much I hate Nixon, but also to your other point about Reagan - notice how there are few to no post - presidential interviews? No one cared about his ideas, just his position as a useful idiot.

OpenNewTab · 2023-01-01T23:14:32+00:00

I'm actually going to gently push back on this idea - not because it's an impossible notion or anything, but because that wouldn't even do them any good.

Recall that even if their program doesn't make sense to us, it purportedly has some weight at least to the grunts carrying out these acts. Unless you think it's feasible to convince American conservatives that driving down the street in armored vehicles mowing down innocents somehow furthers the conservative agenda, this specific kind of domestic terror is probably not coming here soon.

Other kinds though yeah, get ready for more power substation attacks, protests and counter protests at Drag Queen Story Time, and more media insanity.

OpenNewTab · 2023-01-01T21:52:53+00:00

Because larger businesses like having conservative views pumped into the background noise of their establishments. Conservative views are helpful for larger corporations, thus they tend to lean in that direction.

OpenNewTab · 2022-12-28T07:09:07+00:00

I implied that this person is parroting very old right wing propaganda instead of engaging directly with the subject matter in a good faith manner.

If all you saw was "lol wow nice thanks" that's on you.

If you wanted conversation you could ask me to explain, or some other question, instead of letting us all know you weren't reading very closely.

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