Yeah this is the thing. Trump isn’t where things went south, but he sure accelerated it. In a working democracy, he would have been laughed out of the room. But decades of neocon politics have deteriorated the American society so much in so many aspects that he got elected
It’s like everyone after Clinton was bad, not saying Clinton was good but I guess he was mostly lucky with the economy he got
Bush was a disaster
Obama bailed out the banks which mid term fucked everyone up big time and did nothing to end US wars from my impression
Trump 1 was absolute garbage and I’m kind of grateful that COVID might have cost him the first chance at his second term
Biden was uninspired and didn’t have the guts to fix long-standing issues and just put band-aid on stuff, though I actually think he was the least bad out of the bunch
Trump 2 is just a whole different league of catastrophe
Wrong, it was totally straight and not gay at all, because everyone said “no homo” before and after doing what you described. Just dudes having a good time
I just checked out of interest and in fact second marriage have a higher divorce rate, I’d have thought it’s the other way round, like people know what they actually want from a spouse, but interestingly, it’s the other way around by a significant margin.
You already replied to it, here the text again:
I mean otherwise [from context: saying that financing terror groups is a thing peaceful countries do] you could make similar claims about the US. Such a peaceful country! It wasn’t them overthrowing the legitimately elected governments, but local resistance groups! Who trained and armed them? How does this relate to the conversation?
Here, what Iran does is applied to the US in an ironic manner, because I, the writer, assume that nobody thinks the US is a peaceful country, because I don’t think so either, hence calling them out though indirectly; but again nobody called them peaceful (rightfully so), so there was no need to spell it out, I assumed.
It’s a recipe for success!
“luckily, I have 50, so this doesn’t apply to me.”
I have also accused the US of it in this very thread, but in order to understand it, you’d need reading comprehension skills
Also nobody has called “the other side” peaceful, so there’s no need for a rebuttal
If you think so… I never said it is, this was purely objecting to the statement that Iran is a peaceful country. It’s a repressive regime that finances insurgent groups to put it lightly. Does that justify the attack that just happened? No. But still doesn’t make Iran peaceful
You should put something between the link and the semicolon, otherwise it breaks the link.
It works both on Voyager and the web client for me
That aside, while that is certainly not very peaceful, it strikes me as not relevant to the context of countries lobbing bombs at each other.
It isn’t relevant to the bombing really, and if you go back in the discussion you’ll see that I stated this (edit: or rather that I’m against bombing Iran). This was only in response to the implication that Iran is peaceful.
Iran’s foreign policy isn’t peaceful either, e.g. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iranian_diplomat_terror_plot_trial; just because they don’t operate in the open doesn’t mean it’s peaceful.
I mean otherwise you could make similar claims about the US. Such a peaceful country! It wasn’t them overthrowing the legitimately elected governments, but local resistance groups! Who trained and armed them? How does this relate to the conversation?
Yeah like when women aren’t wearing headscarves
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Which peaceful country are you talking about?
I’m totally against the bombing, but let’s not pretend or imply Iran is peaceful.
They are part of a working strategy, which also includes stuff like
I guess it really depends on what you bomb. Military bases, government buildings etc – there is a chance. Civilian infrastructure, hospitals etc – no.
It should be noted though that for example during WWII, the allied bombing of German cities really lowered morale, despite what propaganda tried to portray; but the situation is obviously different because Germany was actively at war with boots on the ground and everyone including its citizens knew they were an open aggressor.
Edit: of course it wasn’t open revolt, but it sped up regime change.
Also please don’t read this as pro bombing. I think this is worst solution to the issue that was caused by Western countries that never stepped up
That to them would prove the same thing as right now: that there is an evil force suppressing that information; only when the LLM says exactly what they want to hear, it is fair and unbiased
The fact that there will be pushback shows that they do work
Ha yeah for his peace efforts in the Middle East (or Near East for us Europeans) just to fuck up Trump more.
God he’s so cringe “they only give them to liberals 😭” no they are
granted in accordance with the principle of “for the greatest benefit to humankind”
at which conservatives fail because they ultimately only benefit themselves.
Also I agree Obama didn’t deserve them but at least he also gives at this fact himself and didn’t wear it when he ordered drone strikes on wedding ceremonies while you can bet Trump would wear it on the toilet even
Ja, ich vermute, es wird an dem “Teil”-Teil scheitern, allerdings bin ich mir sicher, die Frauen wird es wieder nicht treffen. Aber nur Teile von Jahrgängen ziehen und die anderen verschonen wird wohl nicht funktionieren. Hoffe ich zumindest…