WaxedWookie @ WaxedWookie @lemmy.world

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Are you able to point to actions that Snowden has taken to negatively impact the interests of the US people or to materially aid Russia?

There was peace, then Russia invaded, then they're was peace, then Russia invaded, then there was peace, then Russia invaded. This military doctrine pre-dates Russia in the region. How is peace to be established and preserved when Russia pisses all over every treaty it signs, and demonstrates time and again that they only value peace as an opportunity to regroup? Maybe you could remind us why Ukraine gave up the nukes that would have deterred conflict today.

If you keep insisting that dumping decades-old military garbage that would otherwise be scrapped doesn't meaningfully aids the military industrial complex, I'm going to need to ask you how.

Are you thinking of Assange?

Yep - that's about as coherent as I expected.

A quick end to the war via a cessation of aid will see Ukraine annexed. There's a reason Ukraine went to war to stop that.

Manufacturing a situation to dump surplus military hardware doesn't meaningfully help the US - using what amounts to garbage and foreign troops to undermine a hostile state actor clearly does. There's no altruism necessary here.

Your desperation to leap to moral purity testing and American diabolism is leading you to some atrocious positions. Fuck me - take a win when there's one to be taken rather than throwing Ukraine to the bears.

To me, the clear takeaway is that they've walked as close as possible to (correct) genocide charges while pandering to the US.

...and a kleptocracy.

Oh look - 3 "K"'s

...and as long as the system governing the police is a problem is broken, the police will be a problem.

You're not wrong, but a bunch of fragile-egoed, perpetually terrified simpletons armed with state authority and a gun shouldn't be associated with safety.

You'll need to join the dots for me on that piece of insanity, champ.

Or you could just contribute to toss a bunch of surplus military equipment at them, helping them fight off invasion by a now embarrassed enemy of the US without costing significant resources or US lives.

He was certainly the one fucking them...

Yes - better to leave those Russian airbases - the place from which they launch their airstrikes against civilians in place - allowing endless airstrikes against your populace is the path to peace.

...what?

Breathing - famous for being optional for those that would like to live.

Yes, there have only been around 3 people killed by them (largely because they're shy, aquatic, and somewhat uncommon), and intervention can be made to stop them from killing you, but they're one of the most toxic animals on the planet, and are unquestionably deadly.

You think they have a single fuck to give about mandates? They've got the power - they're itching to use it. Good luck everyone.

Good thing we've sacrificed that relative utopia to solve all those problems, eh?

Can't have those uppity workers understanding what you're trying to inflict upon them...

It would have been uncivil - and as we all know, the most effective way to fight fascism is by letting them run roughshod over you while smugly pointing out how correct you are, and that they're breaking the rules while adjusting your policies to be a watered down version of the fascists, exciting the fascists, liberals, and leftists at the end time.

If the Dems get another election and don't pick a left populist like Sanders, they're finished.

Scratch a liberal...

Right sentiment, wrong solution.

You don't fix workers' problems by being a dick to them and making it hard for them to afford to live - you fix workers' problems by inflicting the pain on the decision makers - employers and legislators.

What's going on with MTG right now? Release the results of the congressional investigations, allowing the crooks and paedophiles to be driven out as the cripplingly stupid welfare queen red states seceed to starve as the blue states enter an era of prosperity... Broken clocks and whatnot, I suppose.

In markets the typical response to a sudden shortage is an ________ in ______, leading to a reduction in demand, as the demand shifts to alternatives (other destinations, non-consumption) until a new equilibrium is found.

That's right - an increase in pricing reduces demand by pushing people to alternatives, reducing demand.

Thank you - that's interesting - particularly the quote about making him uncomfortable.

I'm surprised that the shifting Overton window, which has left the Democrats far closer to Reagan than MAGA, (who are busy speed-running fascism) hasn't swept up more Reaganites, but that boils down to naivete on my part, I think.

Whatever the case, I certainly agree that the Dems need to move from institutional neolib/neocon positions to populist left positions, but that's the last place the party wants to go - even when failure to do so represents an existential threat to the party.