Carmakazi @ Carmakazi @lemmy.world

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I am ashamed to admit that I was a Republican voter years ago, and I voted for Trump 2016, expressly under the hope that the "adults in the room" would be able to steer him away from his worst impulses and generally manipulate him into being a run of the mill American president. Instead the Republicans coalesced around him and let that fucking evil moron call the shots. I have never voted for another Republican since and most likely I never will.

But apparently a career politician can't learn that same lesson? I call bullshit. It's the classic question, ignorance or malice? Most people will choose ignorance as the lesser of the two charges if they can help it. I think Schumer knows exactly what he is doing, and why he is being told and paid to do it. Their refusal to remove him from office in 2019 should have been the final sign that they were ride or die.

NA education moment, thought Bosnia was Serbia for some reason. Would prolly get me stabbed if I made that mistake in region.

The Serbs I've talked to online and a couple in person seemed ambivalent about taking responsibility at best. They are generally more pissed about the NATO intervention into their genocide SMO, and overblow how much death it caused compared to the death they (former yugo states) inflicted amongst themselves. I am confident Russia uses this as a wedge issue to their advantage these days.

Been a minute since I've read up on the Yugoslav wars, but are we sure this alliance is primarily worried about Russia and not that place in the middle there?

Words do have meaning, they just want to be the ones who decide what they mean any given day.

And this dictionary change means "We want a casus belli to begin a military invasion of Mexico." Literally throwing the Iraq playbook at it.

I find they're usually just cowards afraid to stand both feet on anything, and/or self-aware of their ignorance so they give the "both-sides" spiel because it sounds pithy and intelligent.

He is not a clown joking around, he is a dangerous sociopath who is a chief architect of our budding anti-immigrant apparatus. Our Heinrich Himmler analogue.

He is threatening a member of the press on live TV. There is nothing funny or boorish about it.

Sentence will be death by firing squad, no doubt.

A lot harder to go after aerospace factories and launch sites, both of which are at least "secure areas" in the commercial sense if not "restricted areas" in the national security sense.

I'm not going to read your 80-page dissertation of ginned up lies sourced by Ivan Ivanovich.

Another .ml shit-stirrer, hardly worth the keystrokes.

Its a problem with basically all the post-communist states. When the soviet world collapsed it left a lot of early computer professionals, if not outright intelligence officers, out in the cold, and many of them turned to crime to support themselves. That fostered the environment of hacking and scams that exists today.

The one time my steam account was getting hammered with access attempts, they were from Serbia.

We have trains that have lethal derailments every year or so.

They don't need to introduce anything, involuntary commitment is already a question on form 4473 and something a NICS check would flag.

Of course, they would still need to physically retrieve any firearms they may have. Unless they planned on handing them over peacefully.

It’s important to note the police are currently the people who bring individuals in for the 72hr mental health holds.

I think it is also important to note that it appears many of these officers are not wearing Level IV plates daily, and plainclothes cops may not be wearing any vest at all.

Losers and suckers, that's what Trump thinks of every single person buried there in his own words, regardless of their identity.

He probably thinks it would make a nice golf course if only we weren't so touchy-feely and weak.

Like that Texit moron who mentioned "warm water ports" as a strength of Texas.

Why believe Congressional Republicans at their word when they say they don't support this talk or don't know where it is coming from? They're collaborator filth. They will "suddenly" fall in line when something actionable is put forth.

I won't say that this isn't good advice, but I've always thought the subtext of this advice was

Please keep your money in The Market so we can keep leveraging it.

Please keep your confidence in The Market.

PLEASE don't start a run on our banks and clearing houses.

Trying to time the market is risky, but ignoring your money isn't zero-risk either. Nothing grows forever no matter how much Capitalism insists it does.

Police dogs are Probable Cause Manufacturing Devices to cops, nothing more. Probably even more true with the TSA.