[-] Tinidril@midwest.social 13 points 2 months ago

Of the two, I think the Democratic consultants do more damage.

[-] Tinidril@midwest.social 14 points 3 months ago

Kamala is the backup the party leadership chose.

[-] Tinidril@midwest.social 13 points 4 months ago

From a US perspective, I see these tactics being used far more extensively by wealthy individuals and corporate interests than I do Chinese interests. Unfortunately, our government and especially our politicians are often directly involved in spreading misinformation and suppressing the truth. We need strategies that function outside of government to close the gaps between reality and public perception.

[-] Tinidril@midwest.social 14 points 5 months ago

That's the only way they got their power in the first place.

[-] Tinidril@midwest.social 14 points 6 months ago

LOL, like Congress isn't complicit. The Republicans are fully behind Israel starting WW3 to bring Jesus back, and Democrats are split, but will never impeach Biden over it.

I have no idea what to do about Biden, but an impeachment over this is a fantasy. The 2020 primary was our shot, and we blew it. The Biden presidency will be what it will be, but we can't let Democratic voters forget their failure. Neoliberalism will end, or it will end us. It might already have done so, but time will tell.

[-] Tinidril@midwest.social 13 points 7 months ago

It has to do with the traditional rules of how the Senate operates. Senators only get so much time to both ask and receive answers to questions. It's just too easy for a witness to burn up that time with long winded non-answers. That's why Senators are quick to grab control back.

[-] Tinidril@midwest.social 13 points 7 months ago

I'm sure that a national firewall is next. These right wing freedom humpers are deeply envious of totalitarian regimes.

[-] Tinidril@midwest.social 14 points 7 months ago

Biden isn't pro genocide, at least there is no evidence to say that. The Biden administration has been against the ground invasion from the start.

Biden has made some missteps in my opinion, but America pulling support for Israel was never a real option. Israel does require aid, but Netanyaho doesn't care if that aid comes from the US, or from his buddy Putin. Israel realigning with Russia would put Palestine in an even worse position because it would threaten their support from Iran.

Then, of course, there is the risk of a regional war breaking out of Iran takes the strained relationship between the US and Israel as an opportunity. That could easily pull other countries in and become WW3.

Foreign policy is about more than just virtue signaling. It's outcomes that matter, and what a lot of people are calling for will not get them the outcomes they are looking for.

Not that I'm shaming anyone for pressuring Biden. The positive movement on aid shipments was very likely helped along by the protest votes in Michigan.

[-] Tinidril@midwest.social 14 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

I'm not saying that the person who said this isn't nuts but, as a point of interest , they did use "fifth column" appropriately.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fifth_column

[-] Tinidril@midwest.social 13 points 9 months ago

It's not really about the nitrogen. Earth's atmosphere is 78% nitrogen already. It's the absence of oxygen that's fatal. Our bodies don't sense a lack of oxygen, just a surplus of CO2. The idea is to remove all the oxygen and the CO2. It's a slow suffocating process but, in theory, the subject would only experience falling asleep. Of course that assumes it's done properly and the subject isn't panicking, neither of which seem likely.

[-] Tinidril@midwest.social 13 points 10 months ago

List them all then. It won't matter. The plural of anecdote isn't data. The one example you gave is clearly the exception that proves the rule, otherwise you wouldn't have to go back 80 years to when pretty much every public institution mistreated and disrespected women.

You are not an honest actor, and I'm not telling you anything you don't already know. It sucks that assholes seem to worm their way into every corner of the Internet.

[-] Tinidril@midwest.social 14 points 1 year ago

Tell us you haven't read the Bible without telling us you haven't read the Bible.

Just in case you think that's all OT, Eternal torture was a NT invention. At least when OT God ordered you tortured and killed, that was the end of it.

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