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non-violent resistance is more often effective

It's only ever effective when a credible violent alternative is present.

No oppressed person in history has ever gotten their rights by appealing to the better nature of their oppressor.

Civil rights weren't won when black people asked politely and just moving everyone's hearts at how unjustly they were being treated, when MLK died, he had a 75% disapproval rating. Civil rights were won through repeated demonstrations of power and showing what would happen if their demands weren't met.

He was always like this, he just became more abrasive after the stroke.

We just closed our eyes and looked the other way when he showed himself to be a rabid zionist and assumed he'd grown from when he chased a black man through neighborhood with a shotgun.

You see him go against AIPAC-backed corpo dems in the primary and interpreted some labor rhetoric and putting a hammer and sickle in his profile pic and it's easy to mislead yourself.

It's what happens when you don't do the critical part of critical support.

This is different from Sinoma who simply lied about all of her positions.

You know the guy who posted this news article is a .ml user, right?

They were supported by Israel due to Assad's support for Palestine.

Hence why HTS has ordered Palestinian organizations that Assad was harboring to disarm.

I don't expect much from liberals, but I am still shocked how quickly yall came around to supporting the psychotically evil faction Israel and Turkey support for their use against Palestine's ally, Assad, and Turkey's enemy, the Kurds.

Even in the 2010s, supporting ISIS and their allies even though they opposed Assad was beyond the pale.

Holy shit I was not expecting .world to support a group of religious fundamentalists that regularly abducts, massacres, tortures, and/or beheads civilians, including children.

When America, Palestine, Saudi Arabia, and Iran, really everyone *except *Israel all label a group a terrorist organization, they're probably not great.

Holy shit why are people hemming and hawing about Hunter Biden when he let this fucking monster off?

The rendering in interestingengineering article is a stock image. An older SCMP article gives a much weirder rendering which matches the whitepaper the lead researcher published on I-shaped hypersonic configurations.

So I have no idea what the blurry ass rocket pic is supposed to be, maybe it was a test vehicle for just the engine, maybe SCMP misattributed it, maybe the team dumped the whole "I-shaped configuration" thing.

Presumably any ram or scram-jet engine will require a rocket engine or other assist, assuming it's not a hybrid like the SR-71.

It probably is, the whole reason supersonic passenger flight looked feasible for a bit was that turbine technology hadn't caught up so slower jets weren't that much less efficient than supersonic jets.

But fuel concerns aside, it's kinda silly to compare a billion dollar fighter jet built with 60s technology to a 747-sized aircraft built for passenger flight with modern technology. Just wildly different environments, purposes, and resources.

smh. How are you ever going to learn to catch mice when you can't catch one in your own bed?

America is a big place. There's some good food, but a lot of the food people eat does suck. The entire midwest or god forbid you live in one of those highway stops where your only options are fast food chains or a fast-casual chain.

McDonalds, Starbucks, and Dominoes exist because people buy that shit.

You can also use BULK INSERT for csvs or just INSERT INTO and some text editing depending on the specifics.

This is more for one-off stuff like analyzing some 10,000 row spreadsheet you've been handed that you could probably do with formulas in excel, but it's easier to use sql, but not worth building a proper process for.

I keep an empty sql DB just for importing and working with spreadsheets to minimize how much I have to fuck with excel.

Gore supported the first war in Iraq, and bombing Yugoslavia. Why do you think he would have been any different RE gorillas or imperialism?

Which policy though?

He did support invading Iraq, he certainly would have invaded Afghanistan. He would have been coup'd by his own party if he actually threatened the fossil fuel industry.

I wish they'd make a hard prediction like "Russia will be unable to feed it's war machine within X months"

Wasn't Trump pissed Obama's administration was able to legally spy on him?

The holodomor happened to the USSR during wide-spread crop failure, it's kinda irrelevent to modern Russia.

The suffering and death in Ukraine will only increase under Russian subjugation

There will be similar amounts of suffering and death under the other bourgeoisie democracy run by a literal billionaire. Either would be far, far better for the people than what they are experiencing now.

Putin be brought in front of the Hague and publicly hanged for his crimes against humanity

Yup, same with Zelensky, Biden, Trump, and most every other leader who could stop this and doesn't.

The only way to put an end to it is for Russia to lose

No, the only way to put an end to it is peace.

distract from and ignore the suffering and mountain of corpses

You are the one advocating for more human lives to be sacrificed over some nationalist horseshit. Every bomb we send adds more corpses to the pile. I want peace as quickly as possible.

Ukraine desperately wants those bombs

The government of Ukraine wants those bombs to take control over a territory filled with people they are openly hostile to. The people, like all people, want to live in peace.

Do you really think that this particular bourgeoisie democracy, unlike all the others, represents the people? One that has suspended elections and throws people in prison for "questioning Ukraine's territorial integrity"?

Every single military action the US has taken since WWII, the US has been acting directly contrary to the interests of the people it claimed to be helping, and every single time the US population gets duped into thinking this time they're there to help. Why do you think this one is different?

That was Kruschev and China's Minister of Foreign Affairs.

https://www.nytimes.com/1991/02/03/weekinreview/the-world-15-years-after-zhou-s-death-his-image-is-larger-than-life.html