Facts.

If we had a functioning government we’d make these billion-dollar space boondoggles clean up their own shit.

I don’t know why you added the sarcasm tag, because it’s true.

There has been extensive reporting of corruption in Zelensky’s government, which always seems to be the case when the US is involved. The only difference is this time we’ve swapped out Saddam Hussein and Hamid Karzai for a white gentleman who’s easier to market to the masses.

That’s fair.

The only real opposition the US has ever seen to war was in the 60’s, when the media was portraying our wars as they actually are and kids were being forced to decide between fighting those wars or serving jail time.

Almost makes you wish the draft would make a comeback. At least that way the average American wouldn’t be able to hide from the effects of our foreign policy.

Oh yes.

Put words in my mouth because what I’m saying makes you uncomfortable. That’s a tried and true way to make someone feel better about their own cognitive dissonance.

I get that, and that’s fine.

We’re a warmongering country and it stands to reason that anyone criticizing the war of the week will not be looked upon favorably. I get it.

There isn’t any action on the part of the Federal Government or most state governments that suggests the majority of people in power acknowledge this as a problem. Remember, in 2/3 of the US states it’s still legal to pay someone $7 an hour.

The only way this changes is if teachers nationwide conduct a general strike and force parents to have to figure it out and schools to close. Barring that, it’s never changing. The people with the power to change it simply do not care.

That’s true, but this same process has repeated itself often enough over the last 40 years that we can point to a few consistent historical patterns, I think.

History is littered with fallen empires.

Assume Russia, China, and others decide to make war on the US and attack our country directly.

What is your thought process going to be on war crimes and chemical weapons?

What’s your thought process going to be when the war comes to the US?

The sad thing is that, years after this war is over, we’ll probably learn our money and weapons were misused, just as we did with Iraq and Afghanistan.

People will remind you of that, and it won’t matter. You’ll still support whatever war we’re involved in, and all because the news network you watch insists that you should.

I mean, our money is funding this war instead of our own health care, so yeah, I think our people have every right to criticize if they want to.

And besides, it wasn’t that long ago that people were saying these same things about Iraq and Afghanistan, and we later learned our money was grossly misused and corruption rampant.

Stories have already circulated about corruption in the Zelensky government.

As an American, I gotta say, this is probably a sentiment we ourselves shouldn’t be getting behind. War crimes are committed in our name with our weapons every single day.

LOL

That’s always the first argument. The poor, defenseless Dems are just powerless to make real, substantial change. Their hands are tied. Better things simply aren’t possible. It was all the fault of the rotating villain.

And yet people still vote for these same Democrats who are bleeding them dry.

Obama tried his damndest for universal health care.

No he didn’t. The Dems were offered a large lobbyist check and took it.

I’m glad it’s working out for you.

I can’t imagine it’s that great for a country where tens of millions can’t absorb a sudden $400 expense without going further into debt, seeing as how it’s a capitalist system that price-gouges people for their care.

You can dislike a policy and still be forced to live under it.

I have no choice but to use the American health care system, and I know how shitty it is, especially given the fact that Obama had a supermajority for a time and could have implemented universal health care. Few things will anger me as quickly as someone saying we have ‘access’ to health care when that supposed access is largely contingent on whether or not you can afford to be price-gouged.

Obama was not a good president.

I’d argue that Brave is the best way. The adblock is seamless and requires no add-ons, and you retain the full functionality of the site.

The article says it happened on a Friday, so it makes more sense now, but Christ, that’s terrifying.

It sounds like it was just a perfect storm of shitty circumstances: Happened at a bad time, in a part of the office that’s underpopulated, not near the main aisle, etc.

I’ve been reading a book about Elizabeth Holmes and the Theranos scam, and the parallels with Gen AI seem pretty astounding. Gen AI is known to be so buggy the industry even created a euphemistic term so they wouldn’t have to call it buggy: Hallucinations.

Exactly.

He’s already unilaterally cancelled bits of student debt for several categories of people.

The SCOTUS is just giving him cover.