In it, a BIA employee recalled clearing foliage in the irrigation canals at least 20 years earlier, when he sprayed at least one of the herbicides — but possibly both — that make up Agent Orange. The EPA banned one of those chemicals in 1979 because of its cancer risks.

US in 1970: “Woah, Agent Orange is actually too gruesome to be used even in this incredibly shitty war in Vietnam we’re waging.”

US in 1979: “Oh, okay, I guess we should ban it domestically too, huh?”

Fucking disgusting.

Tankies: “We need to distribute the essential levers of power (economic) amongst the workers!”

Sane Leftists: “Excellent! How are we going to do that in this particular case, now that we’ve gained control of the country?”

Tankies: “Putting all economic authority into the hands of state-appointed bureaucrats in a non-representative government that operates purely according to the desires of a small party clique in which the workers have no say, and jailing workers who disagree. Oh, and you.”

Venezuela’s current leaders are denying the results of a landslide election which they lost, despite massive interference with the opposition’s campaign. The leaders of Venezuela are now trying to arrest all the opposition figures they can and has promised to send them to prison camps.

Maduro et co, the ones in charge of Venezuela, are fascists pretending to be socialists.

Is a US citizen protected by the US armed forces if they chose to enter an active warzone as a non-combatant without the consent of the US government?

Doesn’t fucking matter. The US doesn’t look at national government forces killing American civilians neutrally in any circumstance - except, it seems, in the case of Israel. This isn’t some paramilitary or rebel group that killed an American civilian. This is literally the security forces of an ‘ally’.

It’ll be interesting to see how Al-Sadr et co shakes out in the power vacuum by the US withdrawal. And by interesting I mean ‘may you live in interesting times’ style interesting, not ‘this is a nice thing’ interesting.

Red-Brown alliance.

God, I can’t wait. Hopefully, at least a few months of peace before the midterms start going.

They really just pulled an uno reverse on the Stasi lmao

The IRS might need a bigger budget to make them morally pay. Prosecution is expensive.

I’m entirely in support, of course, so I say we should increase the IRS’s budget and do it. But I also get why the IRS doesn’t want to walk up to Congress right now, hat in hand, and say “We spent more money prosecuting them than we gained” or anything close to that, and give the GOP ammo for defunding them again.

A good start!

Well, I’ll take the water, mind you. But he’s still a shithead and a war criminal.

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Christ. If this was any other US-aligned country, they’d roll out the diplomatic corps double-time to soften the blow of such a debacle. But Israel? Israel just gets to do it. And jail our citizens. And sell our secrets. And publicly humiliate us.

But also? Nobility would not be part of the spearwall. Or, to be more precise, they would not be part of the first spearwall and may only be part of a formation that comes in to mop up when the battle is all but won. Or they would be mounted tanks in the form of plate armor (more richard than alexander). They key being that they would be able to get their blade wet but would be in little to no danger.

While they wouldn’t be part of the spearwall, they generally were in constant and very real danger. Cavalry is safer, but very far from safe, and often dedicated early in the battle to prevent enemy cavalry from taking the initiative. Richard I, for example, who lived before plate armor was in vogue, was constantly in the thick of the fighting, even when the battles were desperate. The Roman generals (and later Emperors) Vespasian and Titus both were wounded multiple times during the First Jewish-Roman War, and they even came from a less foolhardy military tradition of officership. Pyyrhus of Epirus died because he was in the thick of the fighting, and he wasn’t exactly a meathead. Genghis Khan, Emperor Alexios Komnenos, Harold Godwinson, it goes on and on.

These nobles were often a warrior caste, or near to being one, and whatever else may be said of them (how many ‘commoner’ lives they would sacrifice for their own convenience and glory, for example), “Unwilling to face danger” usually isn’t one of them. They’re brought up, not unlike what modern fascists have tried to do, in a society that glorifies death and danger.

Ultimately this is all nitpicking and me being quarrelsome about a small detail, lol, but I enjoy such details.

Yeah. Honestly, if you asked me even in November of last year, I would have bitterly said that I wouldn’t expect US public opinion of Israel to shift for several more decades. It’s heartening to see that sometimes positive change comes faster than you hoped - though obviously not fast enough, considering the ongoing situation.

The idea of the heroic king fighting on the frontlines is a giant load of bullshit that was (and still is) used to manipulate the masses.

Not entirely bullshit. Leaders like Alexander the Great and King Richard I are noted as being constantly in the thick of the fighting. Warlords like that need to be in the fighting, exposed to danger, in order to preserve their own military credentials with their troops (who will be far less fooled by tall tales of battles they themselves were in). And that kind of warlord leadership is pretty common before the modern day.

The thing is, it’s ineffective, because it means every time you fight a battle, you risk a decapitation of your entire army or state and a succession crisis. So military institutions that last long enough pretty inevitably come to the conclusion that “At least out of javelin range” is the preferred distance for a king or general.

“What do you think they’re doing? They’re pushing for escalation so that they can fully depopulate us,” one resident of Jenin told +972 Magazine. “They’re making life for us unbearable.”

Meanwhile, Israel simps will insist it’s not genocide.

it couldn’t be any more obvious to anyone with half a working brain.

So we’re dealing with a serious percentage of the population fooled, then.

Edit: I wasn’t downvoting you. I suspect that some people might be trying to launch some instability of their own. Lulz.

Oh, I didn’t assume you were. I assumed there are just some wumaos getting upset that China’s boots aren’t being unconditionally licked.

Though the trial has been shrouded in secrecy, Mr. Shiplyuk’s advocates say he was accused of illegally sharing classified information.

He was just trying to solve a WarThunder dispute.