TommyBeans

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[–] [email protected] 64 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (4 children)

This is the coolest thing about him and the only thing the media is willing to go after him full knives out over. Not, you know, all thr incredibly shitty things he does. Just that puritan shit again about drug use being a morale failing

[–] [email protected] 25 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Just like the “weird” thing, they’ll drop this within a few weeks

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Israel exists like aircraft carriers in the sense that their purpose is power projection and causing instability in a region to due US pressure. America thrives by exploiting crises, and they try their best to engineer them in advance, Israel is one tool in that.

This would make more sense to me if Israel was in fact parked right next to America’s biggest enemies and not surrounded by its allies who are begging to be closer allies of Israel will just stop

Exactly right, they’re driving these countries to align closer to US interests because essentially then Israel and by extension the US is less of a wildcard. Additionally, they’re located close enough to provide other strike options that may not be as easily possible by the other means available to the US military for targets such as Iran and Yemen

Why do you need an “Unsinkable aircraft carrier” when you have Jordan, Egypt, Lebanon and Saudi Arabia all full of US military bases and happy to work with us?

Having a few contested military bases and some tenuous alliances is much worse than having a colonization project that depends on your support for its continued existence, there is much more leverage in that situation. Another point that isreal is armed with nukes and their stated use position is the Samson Option, something that plays a great role in keeping the middle east and europe aligned with us interests.

That’s not even getting into how Israel is tied into and vital to the Military Industrial Complex as both a large customer and testing ground for new technologies.

I’m probably not the best to be explaining this, lol.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (2 children)

The US is more willing to assist Israel than itself, no money for relief after tornadoes and hurricanes but we make sure Israelis get free healthcare?

For the same reason active duty troops get free healthcare. All of this is explained by viewing Israel as an unsinkable Aircraft Carrier permanently parked right next to all of Amerikkk’s biggest enemies. They’re integral to the US oil empire and at this point the Empire has no choice but to funnel resources there despite worsening home conditions.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 month ago

They literally learned and took notes to do better the next time

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 month ago

Trump after being shown every angle of JFK’s assassination and the implication being totally lost on him.

”I just wouldn’t have gotten shot “

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 month ago

Critical support comrade rat-salute

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

That’s normally just what I assume because that dude is so inscrutable to me when he’s doing that, lol

I had to check which episode, basically just the beginning of episode 458. It was the rules lawyering about whether whippets count as a drug with the worst Mount Everest/oxygen tank example. Like the reason that makes your voice low is because it’s more dense than air, whether it counts as a drug or not I don’t care, but it causes brain damage and my nephew’s mom died from them, so the misinformation and flippancy about them drives me nuts.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 month ago (1 children)

due diligence

LLM and Google

Lmao

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Bring back the upvote purges, lmao

/s

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 month ago (1 children)
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