Bernie_Sandals @ Bernie_Sandals @lemmy.world

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Yeahhhh Afghanistan was a shitshow. We were actually nation-building, not just nation rebuilding like we did in Iraq, a lot harder to create a national identity out of several tribes and ethnic groups than it is to change/"modernize" a nation like we did in Iraq.

Even Iraq had that issue with the sectarianism, but atleast almost everyone spoke the same language (sorry Kurds). Iraq had also had a national identity beat into them by the monarchy and then the Baathists, which probably helped as well. Afghanistan never really had that.

Exactly, even just his incompetence will hurt us for years to come.

The U.S. also had local opposition fighters to help them gain sympathy from the local population, and we were actually trying to nation build.

You can say that Fatah is basically that for Israel, but they aren't fighting in Gaza. If the fighting in Gaza was being done by Fatah, then global perceptions would probably be a lot different.

It would also probably involve less civilian deaths as Fatah would be much less likely just to bomb a neighborhood to get 10 Hamas fighters as opposed to actually fighting for it and taking casualties which is what Israel is currently doing.

Of course, this couldn't happen under the current Israeli government. They barely trust Fatah with enough weapons to be policemen in the West Bank, let alone enough to take a city of 2 million.

including but not limited to wielding the military in a way that I bet will cause disasters we didn't even really have on the radar as possibilities before they arrived.

Everyone who paid attention during 2020 and has read the Project 2025 plans should know that this will happen.

But it doesn't even have to be malicious, though he will for sure be malicious, stupidity is enough. A million people died because Covid was so much worse here than it could've been, all because he was too petty to say "Put on a mask, save your country" which his base would've inevitably eaten up.

But no, his stupidity caused a million avoidable deaths.

Especially if their addiction is Reality TV, that shit is sneaky and dangerous.

Like Jersey Shore sounds awful, but wait till Reality TV finds your favorite hobby or a special interest of yours to make a show about, then you'd understand.

This is actually new. We don't just dump literally everything we know on Mossad, we tell them what we think they need to know and keep other certain things close to the chest if we need to.

There's many reasons we could've been waiting on telling Israel everything we knew about Sinwar, for example, he's the highest ranking Hamas official inside Gaza, and is the one who would accept/negotiate hostage deals or ceasefire's.

We might've expected Israel to instantly try to kill this guy, which we probably wouldn't have wanted if Hamas still has american hostages.

Or we expected Israel to immediately kill him, and we didn't want to do that because the U.S. was still trying to get some sort of deal out of him.

Ehhh, definitely not since the beginning in 48. Back then, they had to smuggle/steal all their armament, and the US tried to play neutral, hence forcing the British/French and Israelis to give the canal back to Nasser.

It's also likely that we've only been sharing what we think they actually need, the US isn't the puppet of Israel nor vice versa, their relationship is very, very much transactional.

I'd assume they'd mean the business plot.

Of which Prescott has been accused of helping fund.

This is just blatantly false, if an organization is committing crimes or doing something the government dislikes then the government will sanction it, like it has done with almost every Russian Oligarch's business, or front businesses for terrorist groups.

I'm pretty sure the whole point of banning TikTok is that the government is alleging that TikTok has engaged/can be forced to engage in abusive or illegal practices.

That courtyard used to have a hot dog stand called "Ground Zero Cafe" I'm guessing they assumed only military personnel would know about that old hot dog place.

But this is them... in a video...

The only one saying anything about TikTok in the video you linked is Romney, who didn't write the bill, and will soon be retiring, let alone his estrangment from his party, I don't think he has the influence to be a trustworthy source on why banning TikTok has broad bipartisan support.

I'm sure some of the Republicans may be thinking of things such as Gaza when trying to ban TikTok, but that's not an explanation for the swathes of democrats who have come out in support, saying that China is their reason.

The US government has been trying to ban TikTok for 3 years even before October 7th. So I can't see any way that this is solely or primarily intended to crack down on local support for Palestinians.

The Hill? Lol.

I don't understand exactly what you're trying to refute. That's just Blinken saying that the decentralization of media is one of the key drivers of the changes in politics during the past decades. Which is objectively true.

The Congressional Research Service has put out 3 reports in the past year about this, which I can't link here because they're PDF files, but you can find by googling "CRS TikTok".

According to the CRS, Chinese laws require that TikTok Have an internal communist party organization, and by law must have a member put on its Board of Directors by the CCP.

Even TikTok's parent company (Byte Dance) has admitted that its employees have spied on journalists while trying to purge the company of leaks.

There has not been any proof made public of the Chinese influence on TikTok

Have you actually done research into that, or did you just hear it, and it confirmed your bias, so you took it to be true? The executive branch research departments and the GAO/CRS have been putting out reports for months on TikTok's ability as an influence tool.

Here's an example from the Office of the Director of National Intelligence

You can say "nuh-uh" or "They wanna ban it so people like genocide again," but it's objectively true that TikTok can be used as a weapon, and we would be doing the exact same ban if VKontakte or Weibo suddenly became super popular.

instead of being prostituting herself.

This is putting the blame on the minor victim, implying the choice was her responsibility to make, and not the fully developed adult.

the government wants to control and filter what news we see on it for their benefit

But isn't this exactly what the Chinese government was able to do with TikTok?

The FCC used to ban foreign ownership of TV stations for this exact reason, and I don't think that's exactly wrong

I'm not defending

Then why bring up the victim at all? Really just sounds like you're justifying what happened by saying "Well she took money for it, therefore consent".

Debs was already in prison when he decided to run, and he also had basically no chance of winning, so that's not exactly the same.

You think that the Saudi population would rather keep living in a country that chops up journalists for fun?

The Saudi monarchy is entirely propped upon religious fundamentalism, and the oil currently ruining the climate, I say the sooner they find another system the better.

He seemed to like those children quite a lot.

Don Beyer is also seemingly the only one In congress dedicated to getting ranked choice voting through his Fair Representation Act.

If all the older centre-right dems were like him, I don't think I'd have a problem with the party being so centrist.