assassin_aragorn @ assassin_aragorn @lemmy.world

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Checkmate motherfucker

Her number one issue currently is stopping an ongoing Genocide.

What tangible steps has she taken to do so? If she's unable to take any because she doesn't hold an elected position, and she truly believes Democrats won't do anything, then her top priority to stopping the genocide should be winning any elected position. Her utter mismanagement of the Green party suggests that is nowhere near her goal.

You're still not addressing my main point that Stein is terrible for the Green party and indistinguishable from someone who's purposely trying to sabotage it.

That doesn't address my point. If the Greens were a serious party there would be a large movement to boot Stein for how ineffectual she's been as a leader.

Say what you will about Democrats and Biden, but they are leagues ahead of Greens and Stein in this regard.

How would a Democrat/Republican plant who was purposely trying to sabotage the Greens and prevent them from gaining relevance act differently from Jill Stein?

They wouldn't.

It's quite interesting how some people hate Democrat or Republican politicians repeatedly running for president, but will completely defend Stein for running several failed campaigns.

/s?

Nukes are such a terrifying weapon that after being used, the world collectively shit its pants and said "maybe we've gone too far". Truman fired a general who suggested using nukes in the Korean War, and everyday military personnel stopped a misunderstanding from causing a nuclear exchange in the Cold War.

Country X doing a shitty thing did not entitle countries A-Z to also do that shitty thing. If it was terrible of X to do it, it's terrible when anyone else does it, and they don't get a pass just because of how shitty X was.

Edit: Oh my god you're serious. What the fuck.

... Well. That was short lived.

Actually, surprisingly not badly. US generals like Milley took precautions to prevent Trump from doing even more disastrous things. Military leadership is generally respectable.

I don't think they intentionally would, but indiscriminate bombing has the tendency to create unintentional deaths for everyone involved.

There's apparently a very rancorous debate in Israeli politics right now about accepting a ceasefire and a lot of people are angry that they're not making more concessions to get a ceasefire.

It's blatantly clear that Netanyahu has no desire to rescue the hostages.

Afghanistan may be among the most humanitarian deployments the US military has done. The infant mortality rate fell significantly while the US was there, and women had the freedom to go to school and participate in the economy without violent oppression.

Our mistake in Afghanistan was that we didn't build a lasting change. We gave arms to the wrong people. We should've been training and arming the women to fight back and protect their democracy. Not men who were going to be fine either way.

The US military is very apolitical. They don't get involved with campaigns or politics. I think it may actually be illegal for an active serviceman to make statements with any political leanings. Certainly in uniform I think.

So for them to say this much is actually a big deal.

Yeah for them to say this much is a big deal considering they like to stay out of this stuff. It's pretty much a harsh repudiation coming from them.

"yeah... Okay :("

Yeah this feels like a "bad to worse" type of decision

My old boss had a friend who was on a flight with Cruz. And he was apparently... Normal. Kept to himself and played candy crush.

Jokes on you, he's into that

have found that a ‘Natural Born Citizen’ is defined as a person born on American soil of parents who are both citizens of the United States at the time of the child’s birth

Jack shit has found this to be the case lmao. The parents don't have to have citizenship. Every day, immigrants with green cards from all over the world are giving birth on US soil to US citizens.

Plus, if we follow this group's logic, most people would not be US citizens, because of how many people trace their lineage to immigrants. Alito, Scalia, and Thomas would thus not be citizens by their logic, and if that's the case, why are/were they even permitted on SCOTUS?

Republicans have truly scraped the bottom of the barrel at this point. In a sense we're blessed that such hateful people are such sheer idiots.

It also brings up an interesting point though -- why hasn't this Supreme Court, which is prolific in overturning past precedents, not vacated the Dred Scott decision yet? Curious, isn't it?

And China would've been completely in the right if they shot those balloons down. It was a violation of their sovereignty. An ironic one, considering China did it first, but nonetheless, it enters their airspace without permission. China would be totally justified in shooting them down. I'm not sure why you think this is some sort of gotcha.

Additionally, they didn't panic at bad press. They were waiting for the balloon to clear land so that when they shot it down, the debris wouldn't rain down on anyone.

Once again, if these were truly just weather balloons for research, the university conducting the research and the Chinese government are incredibly negligent for not at least informing the US. For innocuous scientific research, there should be no problem with open communication.