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Rah rah Rasputin, Russia's greatest love machine...

Lead researcher has a youtube channel linked at the bottom of that article, too.

Ukraine's fall without US support is not necessarily a foregone conclusion. That would assume Russian offensives are sustainable, which they are not. They're involved in a surge of their warfighting potential, which is steadily depleting their arsenals and straining their economy.

It remains to be seen how long they can keep it up.

Much more defensible during a zombie apocalypse. While the zombies probably wouldn't be bringing 17th century cannons to bear against your walls, you'd still get superior firing angles for your defenders.

Let's not ignore that there's a real, policy-based disagreement here. Tech companies like to be able to import top talent from wherever they can get it (and are generally correct that this is overall beneficial), while white nationalists are dead set against the idea, as it strikes directly against the very core of their values.

It's a legit disagreement, and pretty foundational.

That said, I do overall agree that we're kinda beaten at the moment, and too busy licking our wounds and regrouping to care that much about this.

In 2008, Obama pulled off a surprising victory against establishment favorite Hilary Clinton, mainly off the back of a swell of online, small dollar donations. In his first term, among other things like stabilizing the economy in the midst of what we called The Great Recession (dumb name, I know, though a lot of people did lose their houses and jobs), he gave everyone health insurance subsidized by the government via taxes on health insurance and pharma companies, as well as Medicaid expansion. While not ideal, this was both realistically doable with the degree of Congressional support at the time, and a massive improvement over the previous system.

For some reason people have forgotten this in their zeal to pressure the dem party. I do get that, though I think it's important to retain a degree of memory of what actually happened and why. Anyway, are we really sure a third party is necessary, when it is possible to simply win this one?

Or even that great of an idea? Because unless you pulled all the dems with you, you're just leaving a dominant repub party by helping them divide and conquer. This is very frustrating, no question, but so is life sometimes.

You know how you can put salt and pepper on most things? Salt comes from just about everywhere, but pepper does not.

Finding 9 repubs willing to stand up to Trump these days is easier said than done. You're aware, I assume, of what happened to the last batch.

Regarding work, how about a whole bunch of judicial appointments? He already broke Trump's record.

General reminder that we do not hold the House, greatly impacting our ability to pass the laws we'd like.

A very brief one, sure, I could agree with that. Most assholes aren't worth more than a few words from a mod though. This is the internet after all, trolls abound.

Check the modlog, they usually cite which rule was broken. I think "evil" is a pretty strong word, unfair maybe, but lots of things are unfair without being evil.

Awhile ago they released mod support, and I'm pretty sure I remember hearing about a mod that made it real time with pause.

I ended up dropping it too, but it's more that I'm just not as into rpgs as I was in the past. I can recognize how good it is, but the genre just doesn't do it for me anymore.

People have freedom. This includes the freedom to allow you or disallow you from being around them. You cannot simply break into someone's house and talk to them if they don't want you to, for instance.

Governments do not get this freedom. Governments should and frequently do get constraints that individuals should not.

Here, we are individuals, not governments. This service was made by a bunch of randos, it's theirs. Not all of ours. We are here, in their house, because they invited us. They can disinvite us any time they want, they should and do have that freedom.

I see a lot of parallels between this man and Trump, even up to the nature and level of support they got.

I may have disagreed with Ron on almost all things policy, but at least the man had a spine and stood up for his values with consistency. Rand does not.

Some plastics are more stable than others. That said, we are admittedly far too lackadaisical with them in general.

To answer your direct question, we do have an FDA that does a passable job with some things, salmonella outbreaks, emergency vaccine development, stuff like that. There is probably some regulatory capture at play, though, where business interests get their people appointed into oversight roles. When a full half of our government is so vocally and rabidly pro-business, this is difficult to prevent in the long run.

Prob just a territory, really. Can't be ruining our perfectly even 100 Senators.

That's a really great analogy. lol "This is going to be really mentally scarring for you, and the stains will never come out of your clothes, you know..."

Yeah, the Bible-thumpers claim to have the answers and want you to realize something too.

grapples with political turmoil and North Korean propaganda.

Y'know, of all the world's countries, I would expect S Korea to be one of the most resistant to adversarial propaganda. I mean, here in the US we were largely insulated from it during the Cold War, so we didn't really have the exposure and thus experience in dealing with it. But S Korea has always been in radio range of an adversary, so shouldn't it be pretty well understood as "a thing" by the public at large?

Like, when someone knocks on my door and asks if I'd like to talk about Jesus, I understand exactly what is happening and why. We're culturally familiar with that here. If a S Korean picks a pamphlet up off the ground and it's obvious N Korean propaganda, do they have that same degree of cultural familiarity?