jakee
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Doesn’t take much figuring out - Putin has dazzled him with how much money they can both make mining for minerals in the land that’s been stolen from Ukraine. They’ve pretty much said this out loud multiple times.
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Right - fixing ducts costs money, and so no matter how important it is that the ducts get fixed the administration will make sure it's impossible to fix them. Let alone the on the nose analogy of accidentally firing thousands of the wrong people. Maybe if you spent less time fantasizing about helping the police kill people and more time finding out how politics works (like, what the US constitution actually says for a start) you'd be in a better position to have this conversation.
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What a surprise, you’re caught talking absolute nonsense and suddenly want to drop the subject. Chauvin had two cops helping him hold the already handcuffed Floyd on the ground and he didn’t let go. When Floyd fell unconscious he didn’t let go. When a cop couldn’t find a pulse he didn’t let go. When they called an ambulance he didn’t let go. When the ambulance arrived he didn’t let got. When the paramedic couldn’t find a pulse, he still didn’t let go. Oh but you, if only you had been there! One tiny bit of help from you doing what two other cops were already doing and everything would have been perfect… because you are just so goddamned special. Indeed, it is a very good analogy for what we’ve seen of Trump’s government so far.
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Obviously false. Described by who? Yes. A police officer was convicted of murder for something he did while on duty - the single most difficult thing to achieve in the entire American legal system. That didn't happen because of a narrative, it happened because of what Chauvin did. "At 8:20, a witness across the street began recording a video showing Chauvin kneeling on Floyd's neck, Kueng applying pressure to Floyd's torso, and Lane applying pressure to Floyd's legs, while Thao stood nearby." You were going to shove another cop out of the way so you could help? Good luck with that, let me know how it goes for you. Seems like we;ve found something you know even less about than the US Constitution.
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It is truly staggering how many people can't see anything of the world outside their own house. We had the same thing after Brexit, any industry you can think of was chock full of people standing their in amazement. Transport, food, science, space, aviation, medicine, policing, construction, banking, all of it. 'Well of course I thought they'd never cut ties with my specialty, it's so obviously a good and useful thing! Not like all the other red tape holding everyone else's specialities back."
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You realise you are making the point that the MSM is not staying away from the story? It's a domestic US crime story getting global MSM coverage?
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I dont think you know what the first four sentences of the Constitution are, because I can't really see much relevance to this conversation. You don't wanna answer mine though? How rude 1) No. 2) Stupid question. Those aren't the only options. Let's assume you'd answer with the first option - then what would you have done if you were present when Derek Chauvin was killing George Floyd? You'd have helped him do it?
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The BBC is the biggest news website in the world…
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Cool. By who? Racists, probably? Like how Hegseth complained that no one could know if the chairman of the joint chiefs was qualified or just black, and has now fired him and replaced him with another white guy who is explicitly, legally unqualified for the job. Someone explain to me again how DEI is standing in the way of the glorious meritocracy ‘cos I’m still just not quite getting it.
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Just another example here that you can always do a hell of a lot worse than nothing. Trump administration’s mass firings could leave federal government with ‘monumental’ bill In there supposed quest to root out fraud Doge is committing widespread fraud by giving definitively false reasons for firing people, leaving the government exposed to a staggering number of lawsuits. Paying more for the people you fired without any of the benefits of having them still doing their jobs. And that's before getting into firing 7,000 IRS employees during tax season - an approach which always leads to a much greater drop in government revenue. Now why on earth would two billionaires with extremely complex tax affairs (one of them a serial fraudster) think that's a good idea?
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Problem with fiscal conservatism is that the Federal government is going to need truly unprecedented levels of investment just to get back on an even keel after Trump is through with it.
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I get why you say hesitant, but it's also bolder because he made no attempt to provide any cover or alternate explanation for it. Just boom, here's my Nazi salute. If you don't like it, I have others. Also telling that it was so obviously fascist that one of the next speakers from National Rally (a French far right party that was founded and run for 40 years by a literal holocaust denier) refused to take the stage because of how bad it would look to be associated with him.
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Trump, the greatest negotiator in the world: "Well of course I believe Russia is telling me the truth, and you know they really hold all the cards here."
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So? There are all sorts of political parties around the world who advocate for killing all sorts of ethnic groups. The only one that Donald Trump thinks needs access to asylum in the US are white South Africans. On average the wealthiest and most privileged demographic in their own country. If we called it DEI as applied to immigration what would you think then?
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The early stages of the farcical Ukraine peace talks between.... the US and Russia only are like the worlds most twisted game of 'who said what'. Which of the statements below came from Trump, Hegseth and Rubio and which ones from Putin and Lavrov? "Ukraine cannot join Nato" "Ukraine cannot have its old borders back" "If Ukraine wanted a seat at the table they shouldn't have started the war" "Russia only strikes legitimate military targets" "Russia may not have to make any concessions at all for peace" "Zelenskyy is a dictator and his people hate him" Spoiler alert, in a truly insane turn of events all but one of those things was actually said by the USA. Could anyone tell which one is Russian without looking it up?
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The worst things you can do are to break the law, and to make spending cuts you don't understand. It is much more expensive to reverse the impact of a cut that had serious unintended consequences than it is to keep operating that service normally.
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Kid? The dude said it last year. He's what, 50? You think he's still just figuring out his place in the world? And yet it wasn't edited and the point is as written. You can say the above about damn near anything. Try "The park is beautiful, and with black men hanging from the tree branches it would be even better". I approve of part of that statement, and with a simple edit it would be better received. How would you know if someone was hired for DEI? Your cohorts assume everyone not white or male was hired for DEI. Meanwhile utterly unqualified white men like Pete Hegseth, who epitomises the characteristics you ascribe to DEI hires, passes without a single comment.
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Indeed, every child learns at school how all the Germans were kicked out of Germany and the Japanese removed from Japan at the end of WW2, and only then was peace and prosperity secured. Oh no I'm sorry, we did the other thing. We were nice to them. And it worked.
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What racist screed? “Competent white men must be in charge”
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Aside from hiring kids who’d never worked in government or the region to design new governments for the region from scratch (a mistake that DOGE is now repeating in the US) I think one of the original fatal mistakes of both Afghanistan and Iraq was that Bush/Cheney/Rumsfeld etc initially planned for there to be no nation building agenda at all. Perhaps there is a fraction of a chance that things would have been different if the coalition hadn’t initially planned to simply be a hostile occupying force and had actually considered how they would go about imposing some form of western style government before the troops arrived
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Even more gaslighting! Both Gulf 1 and 2 consistently polled majority support in the build up. Not content with pretending a 'real' representative democracy would only ever do what most people want, you're pretending you've ever bothered checking what most people actually want. Bullshit evidence in support of a bullshit theory to justify your support for a totalitarian state which can do whatever the richest bosses want. Oh, unless it involves needles of course, then they've crossed the goddamn line!
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There was never a vaccine mandate. There was a vaccine or testing mandate. You can't blame him if your company decided they wanted to impose stricter conditions on you. You can't blame if if you imagined they were going to try and be stricter. Now that's gaslighting!
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Oh you predicted pressure? You imagined what Biden might do, and even though he didn't actually do it the stuff you imagined is still his fault? Why would any of that not look like things a democracy would do?
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Can you? Who was paying who for what? You don't even believe there was an end result of this conspiracy, let alone that there is any evidence of its inner workings. See above, isn't this exactly what makes you a shitlib? You have no stance, no ideals, no principles, you'll just say anything to justify your glee at a bilionaire taking some imagined revenge on tens of thousands of ordinary working people and their families. Right, so the whole thing about Biden trying to get you fired was always a lie. Quelle surprise.
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So you might as well dive right in? Ironic that the guys who coined that phrase used it to justify joining the Fascist party. That’s not hyperbole by the way, he literally became a member of Mussolini’s Fascist party because he bought it would help people. What lesson is it that you are taking from that exactly, given that you’re making the exact same mistake all over again 100 years later? Last time it was Fortune 10, wasn’t it? Your CV is moving up in the world! But you you’ve repeatedly told us your Damascus moment was when your employer decided to fire you and you couldn’t accept that it was a result of your own choices.
