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[–] [email protected] 21 points 1 week ago (3 children)

Ukraine has, probably through the help of NATO/US intelligence, the capability to target some of Russia's most significant and expensive military assets with things like drones and sabotage. If the gloves come off because Zelensky gets got, Putin and basically all the high ranking officials in Russia could reasonably expect to be targeted in response.

What I'm saying is they appear to have an unspoken agreement not to do that currently because it's in each person's best interest.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 week ago (5 children)

I think killing leadership is a Pandora's box, especially given the high profile bombings deep in Russian territory that they were very clearly not prepared to defend themselves against.

[–] [email protected] 21 points 3 weeks ago

"Nobody else can be trusted to run any of this stuff like I can. I'm essential to the running of this system and can never go away or even take time to consider that I might ever stop."

Also I think a lot of them hate their kids, hate their spouses, don't like their lives and don't want to be home alone dwelling on how alienated and empty they are.

[–] [email protected] 25 points 1 month ago

Brunch WILL be served. Order will be restored once we peacefully return to the marginally slower rate of systematic killings of the centrists.

[–] [email protected] 29 points 1 month ago (4 children)

You literally came out swinging at someone who said what amounts to things you have conceded talking with me. You called the genocide milquetoast centrism. I don't know what else to call that.

[–] [email protected] 29 points 1 month ago (6 children)

I'm not attacking anyone. You're getting all angry at a person for pointing out that we already turned on the meat grinder centuries ago. I think it actually matters that people not treat Trump as an anomaly that can be neutralized by dealing with him as a single person. Going back to what preceded this guy will not be fixing the problem.

[–] [email protected] 33 points 1 month ago (8 children)

I think a decent country should label the systematic killing of hundreds of thousands of people as alarming and a sign of an evil political system at work. A difference in scale would still be a tragedy but you couldn't really say that extermination is milquetoast centrism in reasonable company. If your country is throwing people in a meat grinder, to use your words, you're already in a point where it would be appropriate for someone to ask:

What rise? The country has been fascist since before anyone here was born. Those fascists have been enabled by people like you cheering on politicians while they put people in concentration camps at the border, strip away basic rights such as abortion while never even allowing others like healthcare, and outright commit genocide. Be honest with yourself: you don't hate Trump because he's a fascist, you hate him because he's not a "polite" fascist.

[–] [email protected] 34 points 1 month ago (18 children)

Ah so hundreds of thousands of systemic killings is milquetoast? You goofball.

[–] [email protected] 44 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (53 children)

Hundreds of thousands of Palestinians were systematically killed under the watch of the most recent Democrat you silly goose.

[–] [email protected] 48 points 1 month ago

My drop shipping business has been fatally compromised by the dang Cheeto. This cannot stand.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

Rural side they sometimes use their own car. I've seen pro masters and dodge caravans in use as well, there have been a few a additions to the fleet over the years.

 

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submitted 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
 

Hey so, I was raised in a very sheltered religious environment, I have changed a lot since I became an adult and accepted that I was just gonna have missed some stuff. I have a kid now though and I don't want to be like... a weird caveman who knows nothing about basic ass science stuff when they have questions or are learning these things in school or wherever. Is there an approachable book or resources about science that fundie-raised folks might have missed? I appreciate this is a weird question but I have to imagine I'm not the only person in this position. (TEST EDIT for reasons)

 

Sorry if this is the wrong comm for this, I never post, but I'm most of the way through Age of Extremes and I'm a bit baffled. I get that he lived a long life and saw a lot of stuff but his analysis of the 20th century seems really defeated and... I mean liberal?

He has some pointed critiques of RES states that veer really close to saying revolution is impossible, that the market cannot be stopped, that basically we have to accept that communism was never a possibility and move on. It is really jarring after the previous titles. Am I misreading him? Some of it might just be old dude stuff, I guess, he has some old man takes on art at least. It just seems like he is totally despairing by the end of the last book, but everything I saw about him made it sound like he was a committed Marxist until he died.

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