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Ath? 🌹🍉@athquestions.bsky.social |
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Trans rights are human rights, black lives Matter, ACAB. Star Trek, Star Wars, WoW, Magic: the Gathering, Critical Role. Progressive voter/organizer. He/Him.
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Ath? 🌹🍉
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France has gone through so many more revolutions, attempts at democracy, and iterations of government than the US has. They've been conquered multiple times, conquered a large chunk of Europe, and abolished a monarchy all in the time the US has existed. They have more practice at it than we do.
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Nick Douglas
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"Get offline, go outside," say the governor who killed the transit budget and the mayor who killed the parks budget
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Ben Horst (bluecheck.jpg)
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What if the roof just collapsed
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The Borg again were (sigh) I thought the founders coming in was amazing. We get next to nothing from DS9, hard-line changelings should have just been the big bad the whole season full stop
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Credit where credit is due...AIPAC and the lobby for the benefit of the Israeli govt are very talented propagandists.
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Hell yeah HvZ! Nightvale theming sounds amazing!
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Barry Deutsch
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Except for Palestine
A #PoliCartoon that definitely won't be disagreed with by anyone! :-p
Link to transcript and other stuff in replies.
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Also noteworthy that Picard leaves the govt applying for UFP membership hanging in the middle of a coup in progress, refusing to take sides and mentioning that his report on the govt UFP membership app will recommend leaving Angosia alone until they get their shit together
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en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Hun...
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The first one that comes to mind for me is TNG: "The Hunted". Govt applying for UFP membership has the crew track down a "escaped prisoner" only for them to find he's a genetically engineered super soldier who is treated poorly by his govt. Picard refuses the govt any further assistance and leaves.
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Dr. Damien P. Williams (Temporarily Logged Off)
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This is and has been for a while, the core of my politics
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Caralho a Jato🔻
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Coyote and Crow!
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Ahhhhhh, yes I see that now. I stand corrected.
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...The federal EV tax credits are only available to EVs who are finally assembled *in the United States*. I'm not sure how them being built in Mexico would make them all of a sudden qualify; the Ford Mach E is built in Mexico now and doesn't qualify for those credits. What am I missing?
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star trek is unrealistic because no engineering department would survive having a machine that makes infinite caffiene for free
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ryan cooper
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"They believe that they, and they alone, have the right to govern. And they are working, from the bottom up and the top down, to limit as much as possible the right of the people to choose their leaders." www.nytimes.com/2024/06/14/o...
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At the time they were called "Mask slackers."
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Inb4 those saying that govts determine tax amounts: property taxes are based on property value, which are determined by market sales. Your taxes go up if your house is worth more on the open market. This is not arbitrary, it is measurable. Blame Tabor, it's why we have to do it this way.
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In all fairness most of my customers are fine, simply wanting to learn how things work. Then there are the people who simply want to complain, ignore facts, and blame the govt for their taxes going up a few hundred per year. To all those people I'd like to wish you a merry fuck off.
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There's a good reason that the CO GOP is bankrupt and CO is as blue as ever. Like this is so funny it's sad.
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This is a really great read for anyone who considers themselves operating with an open mind. I know you're pissed, we all are, and things do need to change. However the way we're operating is not conducive to accumulating the amount of power we need to actually affect change.
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the Mountain Goats
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this exactly honestly
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Dave Weigel
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Every week, a version of this cycle. 1) Dems worry that Biden isn’t winning on economy. 2) Biden holds events about economy. 3) Nobody gives a damn. 4) Trump says something crazy. 5) Biden team reacts. 6) News coverage. 7) Dems worry about Biden reacting to Trump instead of talking economy.
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The Nerdskull
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The thing shitlibs on social media miss is that lots of young LGBTQ people ask the simple question “if we can’t trust the democrats to condemn genocide, how can we trust them not to sell out our human rights at home?” They can decide lgbtq people are a liability any time
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"how can the economy be bad when the stock market has hit an all time high?" Cuz maybe what's good for corporate profits aren't good for people?? They're so out of touch its insane
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Wow. We truly are the bad guys.
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A D&D campaign that I GMd and put my heart and soul into wrapped up last night and I'm exhausted but elated. A fantastic group that continually impressed me and made me laugh every single time we got together. I wish I could do more as I had so much fun doing it but I'm burned out to hell now
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At the end of the day the question is should there be action taken to hold him accountable or not. And if so, at what point does it become not worth the effort vs. what could happen down the road if he isn't held accountable?
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Different hypothetical: if Netanyahu does an oopsie and find himself on the ground in a non-nuclear, European, ICC member state and arrested, do you think the IDF would receive orders from his next-in-command to deploy nuclear assets in response?
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All it takes is one. My while point is there would absolutely be consequences; imo NATO would probably dissolve. But would Paris and Jerusalem, Marseilles and Tel Aviv be turned into radioactive wastelands? My bet is no.
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Sure but Israel is not at war with another nuclear power, let alone a Nato-member state. Of course it would be bad. It also wouldn't happen. But in the hypothetical reality that it did, would Israel retaliate by kicking off a nuclear Holocaust? My bet is no, which is my argument.
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Well, the Hague in Holland but, yeah, essentially. It's a common tactic that Israel itself uses not infrequently. Deny, obfuscate, pretend that those people weren't actually operating on behalf of your Intel operation, just mercs, etc.
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Because folks are getting hung up on France, let's go with a different hypothetical: say Netanyahu screws up and gets caught on the ground in an ICC-member country and is arrested. Do you think Israel nukes someone (anyone) if that were the case?
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Would they want to take the chance they'd be retaliated against back in kind? MAD goes both ways.
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The hypothetical question was in such a case would it escalate to include the use of nuclear devices which I don't believe it would.
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And #2, wasn't thinking of an active shooting war between the two, much more of an intelligence op than a military one. One in which the French (or whatever hypothetical power you'd prefer) could disavow if it went wrong.
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To answer #1, it's simply a hypothetical assuming they would want to force the issue which right now you're right they ain't gonna do anything. I was just using it as an example of a Nato nuclear power that isn't the US or UK who have their own special relationships with Israel
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It was a hypothetical Nato nuclear power that's wasn't the US or UK.
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I wouldn't imagine it would be an invasion, more along the lines of a seal team 6 situation. Still bloody, still bad, but with enough room for France to disavow if it came to it. I don't think nukes would be involved, there's enough bad without even considering that.
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Sure, I agree. I just think that Netanyahu is bluffing and won't nuke Holland for putting out a warrant for his arrest. And I believe that if he is apprehended, those who would be in power in his absence wouldn't be dumb enough to declare war on a Nato country.
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The USA is not a member of the ICC so they can't arrest him in NY, they don't have jurisdiction afaik.
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Sure and I get that. But at the same time, appeasement to right wing strongmen is never a great strategy either. Not that it matters, the Hague doesn't have the capability to go after him directly, they would need the US, the UK, or France's muscle and the first two are firmly in Netanyahu's camp.
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I mean if a squadron of French helicopters arrived blaring their intention to serve an arrest warrant for Netanyahu, sure. With Mossad's recent track record, unsure if they'd see it coming though.
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I almost want to argue that removing Netanyahu may have a stabilizing effect considering 70ish% of the country want him to resign but I can definitely commiserate with your point. I just believe anyone who ordered the killing of civilians deserves to be held accountable for those orders
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