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I still think that Trump fatigue and the repeal of Roe give him enough of a floor that there’s no chance of a complete electoral teeth kicking, but if I still gave a shit about the Democrats I’d be worried.
I still think that Trump fatigue and the repeal of Roe give him enough of a floor that there’s no chance of a complete electoral teeth kicking, but if I still gave a shit about the Democrats I’d be worried.
25k NGO’s for 3.7 million people is closer to 1 NGO for every 150 people.
How much of the Georgian economy is just NGO money at this point?
That’s pretty bad , damn, it took Trump the covid winter + January 6th to finally fall below 40%.
Probably doesn’t help that Biden now looks like he belongs in a sarcophagus.
I keep thinking the situation can’t get any more vile , but it keeps happening
They spent decades trying every possible way to get a deal or some kind of accommodation that would let them live and build something, and all it ever got them was more settlers and more death. Shit, it wasn’t that long ago that they tried a Ghandi style peaceful march to the ghetto walls , the Israeli’s shot 8000+ of them and the world hardly noticed.
I took a long time to get to this point. Conditions have to become completely intolerable before the average person decides that a fight against jets, drone swarms and automated machine guns is preferable to life under occupation.
The Israeli security state has a reputation for competence. I wonder, were they also hollowed out be decades of neoliberal policies’?
Probably doesn’t help that the political leadership consists of a bunch of guys who had to pull every dirty trick to keep themselves and their friends in office, because otherwise they’d be in prison for corruption.
It’s way too late at this point. Two decades of insane US foreign policy have forced China, Russia and Iran into a partnership, so instead of taking on China they’d be taking on all of Asia, and that’s just not possible.
How the fuck can they read accounts of SS Galicia killing tens of thousands of civilians, and burning men, women and children alive and then be like “Thank you for your service”.
They must be getting spooked by all the public admiration and sympathy for the assassin, which doesn’t seem to be fading away at all.
lol, the post-collapse Zoomer warlords would cook and eat him
There’s very little engagement to be had from the site anymore. There’s a narrow range of acceptable discourse, and anyone going off message is quickly censored.
The news subreddits got hit worst of all. It’s pure propaganda , and you can only read so many comments about the great Biden economy and the removed Russian orc before your eyes start to glaze over.
Look at the rates of birth defects and cancer in Falluja to see the answer to that one.
Yeah, vehicular homicide is basically legal in the US, so long as you don’t flee the scene.
Yeah , the big advantage of drones was that they were supposed to be cheap , but the defense companies fixed that a long time ago.
There’s also been bloat from only ever using them in the war on terror, against farmers and shepherds who could never shoot back, but mostly it was the profit margin. Which is why US drones now cost 30 million to 100+ million , so expensive that you can’t afford to lose them.
The weirdest part of all this is watching those daily casualty updates by the OSINT guys.
Every day they claim that another 500+ Russians were killed and one Ukrainian stubbed his toe, and they’ve kept on claiming that all summer, even as Ukraine was doing WW1 style assaults into minefields and trench lines, without air support, and with a severe disadvantage in artillery. Those guys must be getting fucking slaughtered.
Reminds me of the guy who tried to break into a secure building with a gun , became frustrated by the bullet proof glass, and then hid in a field in the middle of his shoot-out with the cops to post some updates about his shoot-out.
This kind of guy is just going to become a thing in American culture now, I guess.
Yeah, people did start to figure this out two years ago, once Russia pulled back and settled in for a long war. NATO governments spent billions more to procure shells and artillery pieces, and on incentives to get the arms industry to build more factory lines and supply lines.
But decades of neoliberalism have gutted the states ability to do anything itself, or to compel a corporation to do anything, even something as simple as build an artillery shell that was designed in the 1870s. The end result is that the incentive money was used to streamline and automate the existing, privately owned, factories, allowing them to fire workers and run more cheaply , but not to actually expand production. And with billions more dollars chasing the same supply of shells, the cost of an artillery shell has now skyrocketed to ~$9,000 a shell.