Jerome Powell got what he wanted: a recession.

Bidenomics!

There’s no going back from this comment: he’s Mr. Dong forever now.

For those who don’t remember Scott Ritter:

• Ryan Grim @ The Intercept, 2020: Joe Biden, Five Years Before Invasion, Said the Only Way of Disarming Iraq Is “Taking Saddam Down”
• YouTube clip: Joe Biden Talked Up War with Iraq Five Years Before the Invasion

Biden told Ritter that no matter how thorough the inspections, the only way to eliminate the threat was to remove Saddam Hussein. […] “You and I believe, and many of us believe here, as long as Saddam is at the helm, there is no reasonable prospect you or any other inspector is ever going to be able to guarantee that we have rooted out, root and branch, the entirety of Saddam’s program relative to weapons of mass destruction. […]

Hussein, it turned out, did not have an active WMD program.

During questioning, Biden mocked Ritter as “ol’ Scotty boy” and suggested that his demands — that the international community compel Iraq to cooperate with inspectors — if met, would give Ritter the unilateral authority to start a war in Iraq. Biden argued that such decisions belonged to higher-level officials. “I respectfully suggest they have a responsibility slightly above your pay grade, to decide whether or not to take the nation to war,” Biden said. “That’s a real tough decision. That’s why they get paid the big bucks. That’s why they get the limos and you don’t. I mean this sincerely, I’m not trying to be flip.”

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

Foreign Affairs is an American magazine of international relations and U.S. foreign policy published by the Council on Foreign Relations […]

People known for parroting Russian talking points: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Members_of_the_Council_on_Foreign_Relations

I posted this to philosophy@lemmy, and somebody—who is permabanned from lemmygrad for promoting double genocide—was not impressed: What a steaming pile of garbage is that? Just twist the world until it suits you?

Haven’t the last 20 years of US action shown that air strikes are its tactic of first resort?

If only the municipalities would eminent domain them at the dip and make them into pubic housing. We’re programmed to view public housing as a drain on resources, when the rents in fact contribute to the city’s revenue.

I don’t know why @ComradeSalad wants to believe Ansar Allah is just three kids in a trenchcoat, incapable of identifying, targeting, or denying corporate shipping vessels from passing through a famously thin & fragile choke point right off their own shores.

It’s already a logical leap to assume Ansar Allah is using manifest data, before getting to the hypotheticals of shutting down those data services.

AFAIK 996 is the attention-grabbing exception rather than the rule in China, so I doubt it reflects upon this poll very much.

إِنْ شَاءَ ٱللّٰهُ

Most of these 100,000 must be conscripts, right? How many of them have the stomach for invading & occupying the concentration camp that was created & maintained in their names?