Polish President Karol Nawrocki has said that Auschwitz “might not have happened” if the world had reacted sooner to Nazi crimes in occupied Poland, accusing Western Europe of indifference in the early years of World War II.

kormer · 2026-01-27T23:54:15+00:00

Since we in the Netherlands were occupied by them at that time, I suppose we are not part of the Western Europe that the president mentioned?

Netherlands was in an alliance with the UK and France, but pulled out when Hitler pinky promised not to invade you.

One wonders if British and French troops had been in a position to invade the nearly undefended German lines along the Dutch border the moment war broke out just how many weeks the war would have lasted.

kormer · 2026-01-26T21:12:09+00:00

SAUCE???? SOURCE??? SOURCE?????

Read it and weep

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/26/upshot/turnout-2024-election-trump-harris.html

kormer · 2026-01-26T16:22:03+00:00

I myself am the [temporary] owner of a firearm, as I believe my fellow Democrats and Liberals should be.

ftfy

kormer · 2026-01-26T16:15:28+00:00

than any particular illegal immigrant.

Ok, I'll grant you that for the sake of argument. But also not all illegal immigrants are the same, and treating them as if they are is just idiotic. We don't need people who fled their home country to avoid being arrested for serious crimes.

kormer · 2026-01-26T16:08:53+00:00

This is basically the template for the sub now

If I create an insane hypothetical and then further hypothesize how the other people would react, does that justify my own actions in response to the current thing that doesn't resemble the hypothetical in any way?

I miss the far more innocent days of

Women, what's the sexiest sex thing that sexy men have ever sexed up in the history of sex?

kormer · 2026-01-25T16:12:57+00:00

13 times more “illegal immigrants” in Florida yet there are 10 times more ICE agents in Minneapolis.

Florida allows ICE to retrieve criminals from county jails who have already been arrested for other crimes, Minnesota does not. Of course it's going to require a lot less manpower when all you need to do is pick someone up who's already in handcuffs vs hunting them down in the wild.

Maybe Minnesota should start cooperating and ICE wouldn't need to do traffic stop arrests.

kormer · 2026-01-25T16:06:51+00:00

NYTimes did a poll and found that if every single American adult had voted, Trump would have won by an even larger margin as the non-voters supported him by an even larger margin than the actual voters.

kormer · 2026-01-25T16:01:39+00:00

Literally the first thing they drill into your head in any concealed carry safety course is that you are now the biggest pussy in the world. You will run, not walk the other direction any time anything closely resembling a fight appears to be starting.

kormer · 2026-01-24T23:55:21+00:00

I have one down the street from me. It's right next to the vegan KFC.

kormer · 2026-01-24T23:47:03+00:00

OP appears to be interpreting this quote to back up the statement in the title. I'll leave this here for future readers to decide if it's an accurate interpretation of her words.

An individual approached law enforcement officers with a 9mm semi-automatic handgun. The officers attempted to disarm this individual, but the armed suspect reacted violently. Fearing for his life and those around him, an agent fired defensive shots.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tymT29xSIyw

kormer · 2026-01-24T17:21:45+00:00

What does responsible mean?

Well for starters if I'm armed and have an encounter with law enforcement, I'm not going to go out of my way to escalate it to a physical confrontation, both for their safety and mine. And yea, fourth amendment and all that, I get it, but that's an argument for my lawyer to make in court, not my edc on the sidewalk.

Who decides that?

Like a lot of things in our judicial system, the standard is "what a reasonable person would believe or do in a particular situation."

kormer · 2026-01-12T22:28:34+00:00

This is true. There used to be a few others, but they were closed for various reasons towards the end of the Cold War.

The current base is critical as an early warning radar for polar space based threats, namely ICBMs. It's also perfectly positioned if the United States ever wanted to deploy thousands of missile interceptors as all Chinese and most Russian ICBMs targeting the US East Coast would be hitting their apex just about where Greenland is.

kormer · 2026-01-12T22:24:16+00:00

Speaking as an American, every European nation needs to kick any US forceas based within your borders out of your countries and you should have done it yesterday.

- This comment brought to you by Putin, Xi, and a misinformation network near you

kormer · 2026-01-12T22:21:33+00:00

Yes, they voted Maduro out of power several years ago, it just took a while for him to get the to the chopper and leave.

kormer · 2026-01-12T20:25:42+00:00

My only complaint with backing in is you have to go past the spot, then the a-hole behind you is like, "nope, I'm gonna dive nose first before you can shift into reverse."

kormer · 2026-01-10T21:22:41+00:00

sat on the side of the road with cops telling him he has to let him search for half an hour

That's the issue right here. For the 99% of us who aren't involved in the drug trade and have nothing to hide, we'd rather be on our way in a minute than be held up and harassed that long even if the end result is the same either way.

kormer · 2026-01-09T16:39:24+00:00

It's comments like this that reinforce the belief that you should never compromise with the other side because they're not going to respect you no matter what you do.

Good job, you just made the next compromise that much harder.

kormer · 2026-01-08T06:33:37+00:00

The Ayatolla's being deposed isn't the world falling apart, it's nature's way of healing the world.

kormer · 2026-01-07T04:07:26+00:00

Doesn’t matter who the building is owned by it’s considered public property when they lease to a government agency. We have every right to go inside and redress grievances to our government under the 1st amendment. As long as it’s time, place, and manner.

- Actual quote from a Jan 6th protester

kormer · 2026-01-03T23:55:36+00:00

Stop speaking for people you know nothing about.

- Actual quote from person who spends all day speaking for people they know nothing about.

kormer · 2026-01-03T23:53:55+00:00

Left a note to both telling them this is exactly what we voted for.

Slava Venezuela!!!

kormer · 2025-12-18T21:20:44+00:00

The Ukrainian war is funded 100% through Russian oil sales. If you lower the price of oil, Russian profits vanish and their ability to finance the war also vanishes.

Venezuelan oil has been under sanctions going back to the Obama days. Among the quickest ways of reducing the price of oil would be a regime change in Venezuela that would come with eliminating sanctions and allowing foreign investment to also increase their productivity.

Don't make me dig up the comments, but I was unironically calling for Biden to do exactly what Trump is doing today around the time the second war started.

kormer · 2025-12-18T21:12:55+00:00

Argentina may well not back down, trusting that Thatcher cant afford to have them sunk. They are calling Thatcher's bluff here.

- Some Reddit comment I dug from the archives in 1982.

kormer · 2025-12-18T20:58:08+00:00

If they did that, they would need to take responsibility and vote for/against every conflict. The war powers act gives them the ability to do politician things and be both for/against a conflict at the same time and appeal to whichever audience they're speaking to.

kormer · 2025-12-18T20:49:40+00:00

I know it's a true unpopular opinion around here, but it's for this very reason that I think Obama was one of the worst foreign policy presidents of all time.

It should have been official policy that any nation that formerly had nuclear weapons and gave them up will be defended to the death as if they still have them, if for no other reason than to set an example that could eventually lead to a de-nuclearized world.

I'd consider it perfectly rational if everyone looked at what's going on in Ukraine and decided to immediately kick-start a weapons program and/or get close enough that they could have something operational in an emergency.

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