PorradaVFR @ PorradaVFR @lemmy.world

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In principle, absolutely. But in practice he's yet to actually incur consequences. I'm beyond ready to see them applied.

I’ve enjoyed their series of videos of abandoned towns - especially the remote Alaskan and Canadian ones with the skateboarder host that is great at making connections with locals. Great content that showed off their skill. Shame.

Of course given it’s the current NYT a follow up article noting how this is bad for President Biden will surely follow.

I mean emboldened fascist ideology normalizing violence to achieve political ends is bad but Biden is old so they’re basically the same threat.

Both boys have to pay $4m and can’t run NY businesses for 3 years. Not nothing - although I did not see anything about Ivanka.

Nonsense. He won't tap the RNC coffers. Please.

He will shanelessly gorge himself at the trough. He will decimate their finances completely to try to save his skin with no concern whatsoever for other candidates, policies, goals or anything else beyond his own ass.

1. She has no fucking clue what appeasement means or how it objectively applies in this instance.
2. She responds insultingly to what is an entirely reasonable and entirely diplomatic phrasing of a justified opinion.

She's an utter embarrassment. Every single voter in her district should be mortified. What a buffoon.

Landslide is plenty bad enough…but with a damn cyanide bonus? Horrific. Those poor miners. I hope they manage to find survivors.

Very cool. My paternal grandfather was from there and I’ve never been. Looks like a stunning place.

If that's what happened I agree. Targeting a marked ambulance which had even notified them is unconscionable.

Being ashamed of righteous empathy is part of the problem. Be better than those that commit evil.

That poor little girl, the family and the heroic paramedics that tried to help. This is horrific and must end.

I can’t fathom the horror. Our species is fucked.

I don’t agree with some details but the sentiment is right on. Adhering to norms unilaterally is not helping.

Actually aid has been slow walked but you’re not wrong that we’d almost certainly come through and not leave them in the lurch.

Some great points - Democrats continue to show naive faith that they're dealing with an honest opposition and not an actual looming threat of fascism aligned with our adversaries and not at all committed to the rule of law nor the very concept of Democracy and the will of the voters.

On that i totally agree. It's not business as usual and they've endeavoured ( understandably yet dangerously ) to believe things will revert to normal.

But what's the option? Civil war? I'd like to think an electoral defeat would turn the tide and bring some people back from the cult…which seems to be happening a bit. Biden never had a mandate in Congress and never the Judiciary so I see it as despite massive obstructions he's broadly done a good job. I never expected nor could we have achieved much more under the current circumstances. I blame McConnell, SCOTUS and the insane House far more than Biden for that.

As much as Israel can be a shitty friend they're the only real one we have in the region, so kinda yeah we do. And its not unconditionally - Blinken has explicitly told them to avoid civilian casualties and fostered the cease fire that already occurred. Have they pulled back and deescalated as much as we want? No. Have they done some and continue to do awful shit? Yes. Have they pulled their punches somewhat due to external (our) pressure? Absolutely.

It's a near impossible puzzle - ignore Oct 7 and it escalates. Decimate Gaza and … it escalates. Engage Iran and it becomes a regional war (which the Iran-backed Houthis are trying to trigger). If we say F it and withdraw then what do you think happens? Everyone just chills out? I don't have magic solution, nobody has for 70 years. Biden is walking the same tightrope and so far has things simmering instead of exploding.

Consider further complexity - Ukraine desperately needs funding to fight a resurgent Russia. Put simply keeping that conflict isolated prevents a broader one across eastern Europe and us out of it. A strong Russia helps Iran which makes that conflict worse.

The immigration policy has a lot of bad in it - but it's reform the GOP demanded to pass other issues. They just refused to accept “yes” to their own policy and have to run on that. Consider if that flips the House and retains the Senate actual, far better policy can be enacted.

The GOP is backing Russia and is desperate NOT to solve….anything. Democrats are at least attempting to polish the current DC turd. Biden has to back Israel and is telling Netanyahu to back off Gaza. The GOP sure isn't.

The nuance is the GOP policy should be blamed on them. It was a master stoke to call their bluff and say “ok, pass it”. They never wanted it to actually pass any more than they wanted to lose Roe v Wade as a campaign issue. They're screwing themselves.

People of inexplicably confident certainty that they alone have discovered legal loopholes enabling them to ignore laws they don’t like while benefitting from public services and infrastructure of a nation they assert they are not a citizen of. It’s delusional ignorance.

I suspect it's the rationale of “he's our moron”. They're fine with incompetence and corruption if it hurts the other side more than their own.

I think that's due to the inexplicable resilience of the Democrats belief that there is any shame or principle remaining in current Republican politics. They literally purged a Cheney (!) for not being sufficiently right wing.

It seems to finally be sinking in that precedent and tradition and compromise simply do not matter to the GOP.

Absolutely.