why does New York have ranked choice voting for the primary but not the actual election?
larrikin99
joined 4 years ago
Bulletins and News Discussion from June 23rd to June 29th, 2025 - Iran, Harden Your Deep Military Sites
It's likely Iran will now have months or years to reinforce their defense.
I don't know how they should address their internal security problems. Stricter movement controls, firewalls, surveillance, social welfare, affirmative action, federalization, seems like a lot to accomplish in a short time
For air defenses, they'll likely need to look to China since Russia is occupied with Ukranian drones. For China, wouldn't the value of being able to test their equipment (Their personnel as well if they're discreet) to gain experience at running an air defense network against western 5th gen planes be extremely valuable, even more than the cost of the batteries they send? US retaliation would be sending more Patriots and PrSM to Taiwan?
"Diary of a madman" is a short story from 1918 by Chinese author Lu Xun. It describes a man who falls ill and begins to read Confucian texts obsessively until, to his horror, he can see the words "Eat People" written between the lines. It's a timeless classic about the horror that comes from awakening to an unjust culture, realizing how all the pillars of your society have licensed it, and even your friends and neighbors are complicit in supporting that which everyone knows to be self-evidently wrong (Cannibalism, which the publisher notes reveal is not entirely a delusional hallucination or a metaphor, but an actual social ill taking place then)
The narrator continues to unravel as he next realizes his own complicity within soceity, but as foretold in the prologue, ends optimistically, with him resolving to struggle to build a fair soceity for future generations and finally recovering from his illness and leaving his village to serve as an official.
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have liberals still not realized their two most frequent critiques are contradictory?
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Finally saw the episode with Pickle Rick. Why did this become the quote for people to loathe?
(hexbear.net)
The episode was pretty funny. "Pickle Rick" is a mild example of "L0l Randumz Xd" humor, because the reaction of literally every other character is that it's underwhelming and unfunny. the rest of the episode has good jokes, references, super fluid action and gore.
Edit: I don't want this on the front page while US-Iran stuff is going down.
It's a job that requires you to be an absolute bitch, it ain't helping the gender to get this kind of representation.
"Hey, I noticed an inconsistency is the vast machinery of empire that crushes bodies into mulch, does the Administration have an explanation for this hypocrisy?"
Press sec: "Listen up sweetie; you're a removed for asking that, I already gave you my answer, don't bother coming back, dipshit."
The Hill article an hour later "WATCH: Jen Psaki gives EPIC clapback to mansplaining reporter who tried to ask irrelevant question about Airstrike which killed 49 women"
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93% of the comments in thread is dunking in the random lib's comment chain.