It's a complicated issue and explaining it to people who have been spending the last year consuming Iranian propaganda isn't going to get her anywhere. People want her to say "Israel is evil" and anything other than that will have them screaming "genocide Kamala" in the same way they scream "genocide Joe."

Yeah it's really a no-win scenario. Probably why she's just avoiding the subject altogether.

A lot of people have grandparents that fought against an antisemitic regime tho.

Wow it's almost like Kyle Rittenhouse might be a piece of shit.

Apparenlty telling your customers to go fuck themselves isn't a good business strategy.

Basically that's what they did with Ocean's 11. The original Frank Sinatra version was shit. But it was a good idea, a crew of super cool dudes get together to rob a casino.

They remade it and it was very successful.

The Thing has a similar origin.

But it's rare things like that happen because Hollywood execs usually need an existing property with good numbers to greenlight a movie.

The only time in the history of NATO that article 5 was invoked was on September 12, 2001.

NATO countries sent soldiers to Afghanistan in support of the US. A two decades long war. I'm personally from a NATO country and have two family members that have PTSD because my country honored the agreement and supported the US after it was attacked.

The US has never engaged in a war to support any NATO members. NATO members have engaged in a war to support the US.

Recruitment numbers are down in my country in large part because of how the war in Afghanistan turned out. That was in large part due to the US going on a little side adventure into Iraq. Because of this, even though my country is purchasing equipment from the US defense Industrial complex (which if we're being real, is what the goal is) we don't have enough military personnel to operate that equipment.

So with all that, shitheads in the US complain about my countries "not pulling their weight". We've been sending our people to fight in a US war for two fucking decades because that's what allies do, but then shitheads in the US don't care about that, they only care about how much money is coming from NATO to the US defense industrial complex? It's craven.

And Russia propaganda and election interference is happening in every NATO country. For the same reason that there are many in the US don't think the US should support Ukraine, there's many people in other NATO countries that think the same because of the same Russian propaganda effort. Instead of being hyper-focused on the revenues of Lockheed Martin and Raytheon, maybe think a little more about who the real enemy.

The weird rules they come up with always make me laugh. Red ink at a 45 degree angle?

It's like some incantation from a fantasy story or something. How do go so far down a rabbit hole that you think you have wizard powers that you can use by simply writing things in a weird way?

Like do they imagine the clerk is there with a protractor and is like "damn, it's 45 degrees, nothing we can do about this one!" Or is it like the clerk will go into a trance and be compelled by their magic incantation to throw the ticket out?

Yeah that's the only way it makes sense.

I mean if you have a functioning phone and you felt you were in danger, would you sit around waiting for someone to call you?

Our guy was obviously having a merry old time out hiking, and ignoring unknown numbers. Then only found out later someone else was freaked out about him being lost.

But a story like that isn't going to get shared as a facebook meme...

Also it's actually not that hard to quit smoking. I've quit smoking four times.

I wouldn't say it's leftist, though there's a lot of leftists here. Lemmy is more like how internet discussion boards used to be. There's a lot of people with weird opinions on things, and there's no Reddit Karma pushing people to conform to the consensus. So people are going to have weird takes on things, and there's not 1000 comments upvoted above the weird ones, so you're going to see comments like that. So reply to with you your weird opinions on those weird comments.

Welcome to the version internet that's not pre-packaged and filtered to be bland!