This was a warning shot. It’s a promise that if the US escalates the war, Iran will fuck up their gulf allies and impact the supply of fuel permanently. Their strategy of making the US’s war of aggression everyone else’s problem really is the best strategy they could’ve used without a nuclear deterrent. It won’t win them many allies, but it won’t win the US any either.

Sounds like they should just run with the idea and make high rise mausoleums 🤷‍♀️

It’s so silly that people are rushing to defend vaping here. Just admit that inhaling shit into your lungs isn’t good for you and that the rich people profiting off your addiction want to keep up the charade as long as possible. Just admit, like all people who smoke cigarettes do, that it’s bad for you and that you’ll continue doing it.

I drank diet sodas for years, but I avoided defending it even though the evidence was inconclusive. I know the corporate goons want it to be perceived as healthy, so I don’t want to play into their plans regardless of how convenient it is for me. Our addictions aren’t healthy, and we need to own up to that even if we aren’t strong enough to resist them.

I wouldn’t count on the health of those employees being respected either.

So it wouldn’t have been right to kill Hitler even though he took dictatorial control? It can easily be argued that once a democratically elected leader moves to nullify elections, purges non political government positions, and starts to ignore the authority of other elected positions, that their contract as a democratic leader is null and void. We’re already there with Trump on all accounts. Him starting a war without congressional approval should make it obvious that he will take every shred of power the other branches have left given enough time. His position isn’t the only one we vote on, but he will ensure that no other result matters.

Besides, he plans to stay in office until he dies, and if he corrupts the military with enough loyalists by 2028, he’ll succeed. The only mechanism to remove him will be him dying and hoping his replacements are too weak to maintain the grift. I don’t say this as a call to action, but a statement of fact.

Vietnam didn’t have a massive effect on global trade that affects every economy on earth. The longer it goes on, the more major players will want to bring it to a swifter conclusion. It won’t be a multi decade slog between a handful of countries, but a Great War that drags dozens of nations into it. It’s a mini World War, not a forever war like Afghanistan. It’ll only turn into another Vietnam if America tries to nation build, and I think America giving up and going home with Iran in shambles is far more likely.

While those things are problems, they aren’t problems for NATO. NATO is literally a tool built by America for American imperial interests, so Trump throwing it in the trash has more to do with his own personal grievances than advancing American interests.

We are getting very close to our extinction

We aren’t going extinct. What will happen is billions of deaths and everyone on earth suffering greatly. Extinction is a naive fear compared to the real horrors in our future.

I’m not gonna give a free pass to the spineless conservative Democratic voters who were so afraid of rocking the boat that they refused to help change its course. Neoliberal ideologues and anti left fear mongering kept the party divided, and it’s not like the left wing of the party were the ones unwilling to compromise. AOC played ball to have influence in the party, voting rights activists endorsed voter ID laws to try to compromise with Republicans, yet it didn’t matter because they were always the ones who were expected to give something up. The right wing of the party used the spectre of needing to compromise with fascists to bend the progressive to heel, and they couldn’t even win over the people on the right they were trying to appeal to.

The sad part is they doomed the party in 2020 when they voted for Biden because they wanted to “return to sanity.” That was the last opportunity to right the ship, but because Bernie was still too radical despite the conservative losing in 2016, people voted for the “safe” picks in droves. It didn’t even matter what the lower levels of the party demanded, as Biden refused to hold an open primary because he saw 1 win as a mandate for 2.

So no, it’s not just the non-voters or third party voters who are responsible, but the rank and file Democrats who fumbled the game. Even the progressives should’ve been more demanding. People were still unaware of how bad things could get; unaware that left wing populism wasn’t just an idealistic dream, but the necessary weapon for defeating right wing populism.

We’ll have mostly transitioned to renewables long before we can haul helium back from the moon.

Most of the modern uses have little to do with Helium being light. It being non reactive and a great conductor are much more important.

They’re probably the same dudes who go on hikes without enough water or wearing proper clothing because they “don’t want to be pussies.” Mfs think nature is conquered and is now as safe as an amusement park.

I’m not surprised that a person using 😃 emojis didn’t fully read what I wrote. Oh well, it’s not like such comments are for you anyways ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

You miss the point. You think Kamala being better than Trump is a gotcha that’ll shame non-voters into eating the shit sandwich, but that’s immature. Voters will never be rational and will always pick what feels right over what would lead to a better outcome. Being bitter about it helps no one, especially when it’s a party’s job to make decisions that appeal to voter preferences.

They made so many blunders leading up to the election that I knew who I would be responsible if we lost. As someone who has voted in every single regional and national election since I was eligible, I saw them do everything in their power to be unlikable enough to lose to evil incarnate. It was the last election that mattered, but you wouldn’t think it based on how they ran the country and their campaigns.

They put capital above democracy, put nationalism over human rights, and they never plan to undo the damage done unless the owning class allows it. You blaming the people who lost most from the election only dooms the party to moving further away from liberalism. It’s always the people who own the media, own stocks, and own politicians who are at fault. You’ve already forgotten who to blame, and for that you are a useful idiot.

You didn’t listen to those posters because if you did you’d know they were mad about a lot more than the genocide.

HE EVEN ASKED CHINA?!!!

Looking at this comment thread, I’m beginning to think the real shitty people of this story are those who think the wilderness isn’t dangerous. The only saving grace is that your opinion doesn’t seem to be the majority.