agitatedpotato @ agitatedpotato @lemmy.dbzer0.com

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That 90% figure was 2 days after 9/11, and in that 2002 state of the union they lied about Iraq having nukes. Later in that like it shows most people flipping sides. Shockingly, as they got further from the emotional events and started to realize they were lied to they changed their minds. The point remains there were large contingents of Americans opposed to the war from the beginning and their numbers only grew. A few polls with varying samples sizes taken around terrorist attacks and lies from the president don't discredit that.

The war on the middle east caused the largest protests in American history at the time, so they were there and not being listened to just like this time.

This whole debacle is so dumb, If Harlan Crow was going to manipulate West it's not gonna be with the 3000 dollar public donation. We're keeping this energy for the horrible people who end up bankrolling Biden too right?

Ignorance is bliss, why do the thinking yourself?

Have a family member in renewable installation and if the local power company around me is any indication, they're gonna take the money, then charge the consumers to do what the money was supposed to be for.

Every Russian thinks they're gangster until the snow starts talking Finnish.

I agree with a systematic approach to problem solving, especially when so many of the large problems are systematic in nature. I don't personally believe too much can be done from the inside, but I'd love to be wrong and have progress come from wherever it may, and I know my way is not the only way. Not gonna spend my time trying to work from the inside though.

It reminds me a lot of the situations where Law Enforcement Officers won't follow along for what they know is not right when everyone else is doing it, despite knowing that if they leave that's one less person to stand up to the unethical, there is a point when you can no longer even associate with the group because of the very real blame you'll start to share, and rightfully so. And in the case of LEOs if you're not going along with the rest of the gang, you could very well be in danger.

I have little faith in the amount of movement you can actually cause from inside the system personally but Im not going to pretend my way is the only way, it's good that people try. It sounds like this is someone on whom the ethics weighed heavily from the very beginning and their resignation when it became too much supports that. I could be very wrong on my analysis, but someone who's got the moral fortitude to leave at all like this is probably among the better people in those positions for what that's worth. I guess what I'm trying to express is that I feel like most people in positions like theirs are not as ethically inclined as they were, at least from the views I get on the outside.

Understanding is a generous word to use for them I think.

They mean even less when it's just a quote and nothing something that could alter the amount of money he's gonna blindly send to them. It's basically just PR since there's no real enforcement attached to it.

“When I came to this bureau ... I knew it was not without its moral complexity and moral compromises, and I made myself a promise that I would stay for as long as I felt … the harm I might do could be outweighed by the good I could do,” Paul wrote on LinkedIn. “In my 11 years I have made more moral compromises than I can recall, each heavily, but each with my promise to myself in mind, and intact. I am leaving today because I believe that in our current course with regards to the continued – indeed, expanded and expedited – provision of lethal arms to Israel – I have reached the end of that bargain.”

Gutty. Well thanks for trying to change things from the inside, it's a shame things are set up the way they are. Not to mention having the strength to stick to your morals and leave when you realize there's no more good you can do.

Maybe hes just using it to hide something.

B and E, classic combination.

Oh wow, in that case what a horrible editorialized title.

There's also a misconception about equating JDAMs with Israeli bombs in a strict sense, where people start to assume every Israeli bomb is a JDAM but thats not true either.

https://www.businessinsider.com/israeli-air-force-photos-fighter-aircraft-armed-unguided-weapons-2023-10

I mean, I'm not trying to give Isreal, or anyone else right now, the benefit of the doubt but we have reports if Israeli planes using unguided munitions from two days ago. And not to take away from the severity but I wouldn't call the strike dead on as it missed the main structure, however the strike in 2014 that I've refered to elsewhere was also similar in that it hit close but the initial impact was not on the structure itself, so I don't think that alone has too much bearing on who actually did it.

https://www.businessinsider.com/israeli-air-force-photos-fighter-aircraft-armed-unguided-weapons-2023-10

People keep saying this but it's not true. Here's a case from 2014 where the consensus is the munition was Israeli, with the eyewitness account of a NBC reporter. The impact was also indirect. The excuse is even the same, they blamed 'Gaza terrorists', not Hamas directly. That doesn't mean its the same this time but it's not a given that Israeli munitions would simply level the hospital.

https://www.vanityfair.com/news/politics/2014/07/gaza-shifa-hospital-bombing

While researching Chinese EVs I came across articles about abandoned EVs, the article claimed it was because they were made obsolete (they have roughly 100 mile range or less) so they were abandoned for the newer cheaper models with 3-5x that range, that problem is probably gong to be a bigger one to tackle than Chinese EV longevity, which supposedly aims for roughly 200,000km lifecycle which is 125k miles (average ice car has a lifespan of 130k miles). It also showed me how close to production those batteries you are talking about are, there's a bold claim that the battery could be good for 2 million kilometers, if it's even on the same order of magnitude of that, it would make so many EVs 'obsolete'.

https://www.newsweek.com/mysterious-case-gazas-al-shifa-hospital-262086 OK Buddy. They even used the same exact excuse, saying it was "gaza terrorists" instead of naming Hamas directly. But continue to talk shit with no sources of your own.