This is something Vaush goes back to a lot on his streams. Modern Republicans don’t believe in anything anymore, and so there’s no point in continuing to debate them. It’s like arguing with a monkey throwing poop to be a left leaning debater.

Looks like maybe cut an artery on the window to me. Scary stuff all around.

From what I understand, it’s a major felony to tamper with food. The notes are not touching the food, but it certainly isn’t a good feeling that some groyper had their grubby fingers on your purchased product.

Another bit I think people are missing… Signal is not a government contracted app. They’re trying to avoid written records that can be FOIAed

Anyone else who finds it too convenient that qanon started in Trump’s first term and immediately this is gaining prominence? Distraction campaigns clearly work and we really need to prevent these angry boomers yelling at town halls from reverting to being internet conspiracy theorists with this nonsense.

“It’s a lot later than I thought it was. At least I got a decent amount done.”

Opposite direction: “Crap, it’s a lot later than I thought it was. I wish I had gotten more done. Maybe I’m not cut out for this.”

Lemmy has no edit history, so the only honest way to edit something after a reply has been made is to contain all new text after Edit: or at least add ()* if it’s to fix typos or reword. This should make people feel less like they’re arguing with a bag of water.

Let’s agree to disagree between who’s worse between two nightmare scenarios.

Fair enough, you weren’t surprised. Point stands, though, that Kurds are on the defensive largely because of a lack of support and powerful enemies. Hillary didn’t have recent events to contend with at the time, and her intended actions likely or at least plausibly would have stopped them from needing to behave that way. Erdogan made his move the literal moment Trump announced no more support, US involvement clearly prevented this up to that point.

Honestly, Al-Sharaa has been a great thing so far if stability is the real goal. This will be tested, though, once he tells a single big nation with economic interests in the region, “no” or if Trump/Putin can find something to extort them for.

Of course, if he’s not the middle man for all of the information oligarchs use to further steal from us, then what purpose does he serve? Sorry Elon, you’re gonna have to continue paying fealty for the bathroom leaks.

I’m not sure multiple post-hoc edits are going to make people trust you more, but better than nothing. Do people who interact with you need to screenshot the goalposts?

As for ISIS being better than Assad, I mean the bar is in hell, but for Syrians I think it’s unmistakable and Others seem to agree. Kurds would result in a much better governance. What we ended up getting with Al-Sharaa seems like the 2nd best scenario of the 4, which almost certainly couldn’t have happened without Ukraine putting up the defense they did.

The Kurds were abandoned to Turkey, and you’re surprised they’re on the defense? Erdogan wants them dead more than anything. We can talk about alternative timelines, but let’s not ignore what got us to the current set of facts and pretend it was always going to be this way.

It’s all Projection

The fault is obviously the driver who hit them, but also the social pressure of holding everyone up and making a quick decision to go and clear up the intersection.

This isn’t unlike a situation where a truck stopped to help my sister turn left out of a business he wanted to turn into on a 2 lane 2 way. She had no visibility, and the dude was angerly waving her to leave for his wide turn. She let the social pressure get to her, went out to peak around him, saw the far lane was clear and went, then got tboned by someone zipping around him. She never would have tried that had he not made her seem like she was the unreasonable one making him circle the block again or make the wide turn into the other lane to get in straighter… Course he didn’t stop to be a witness either.

Why is trying to prevent Russian airstrikes on Assad’s behalf triggering doubt that it’s for the benefit of the civilians? The kurds weren’t the ones Exterminating them with chemical warfare

The article you linked once again states her motivations were not what you said… She wanted to support the Kurds, something virtually no progressive should have a problem with doing in the Middle East. She specifically wanted to prevent ISIS from coming to power by arming the kurds and you even acknowledge the airstrikes were mostly used against them and not just from Russia, but Turkey too thanks to Trump fully abandoning our allies. Also, for the people of Syria, Assad may represent stability for the Russian interests there, but horrible outcomes for the people, I find/found him to be the worst of the three options.

Again, you’re free to say you think her motivations were to give ISIS a Senzu bean, but her stated mission was to arm and train the kurds and topple Assad. Something that eventually happened from a less scrupulous group because of a power vaccuum left by Russia, after trying to shore up a US power vaccuum with a cruel dictator and getting distracted by other imperialist interests. If anything, the strong ISIS emergence was directly counter to her plans; If you don’t misleadingly claim the plan and motivations immediately stop after Assad is outsted, anyway.

Her stated reasons were to protect Syrian civilians, not “ISIS and moderate rebels” according to your own source… Be careful about spreading misinformation. It’s okay to have the opinion that that’s who she was protecting, but I’d say the stated goals of Obama’s admin plainly dispute that motivation as well.

Absolutely horrifying. The account of the barber… All of this to make weak “men” feel strong.

For every dollar spent on IRS staffing, etc, it’s estimated to be at least a 7x return. Any disruptions are going to cost a lot with that in mind. Also, I find it a little misguided to question the IRS, an agency that shows its work’s opinion on DOGE, an “agency?” Which has failed to show its work and has been caught lying frequently.

For sure, I think drivers often make calculations like they’re being nice, but the risk to a walker is way higher than a driver and so they shouldn’t be surprised when the walker doesn’t take the wave. I slow down and meander as a pedestrian when there’s a busy 4 way and then jog across, if people stop early “just in case” I feel put at risk for niceties.

They’ve basically got the Starbucks problem going except for their customers. Starbucks hired progressive college students for their staff and were shocked when unions started popping up. If a brand targets conscientious people, they’re not going to get a single conservative.

I was pretty shocked at how many big brands around cosmetics, haircare, and hygeine were big Trump or Project 2025 supporters. It’s about as rampant as gas stations and tool brands.

I use them as well. I wish there was a better agregator though, Walmart passes their check, but treat their employees and suppliers like dirt.

Finally, Springfield Ohio can go back to being a meth-riddled shit-hole as God intended. I hope the hateful people interviewed by Fox enjoy the loss of every federal and local social safety service at the same time.