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  • Blaming AirBnB for high housing prices is like setting up a chain of dominos, and criticizing a guy who comes by and knocks it over.

    Yeah, and that's exactly what they chose to do. They contributed to the reasons John Public can't afford housing, and were rewarded massively for it.

    If it wasn't him, it would have been someone else, or the wind.

    Yeah, anyone can rob a bank with poor security, but we should still punish the guy who actually robs the bank.

  • It depends whether you think killing 200,000+ civilians is a defensible act.

    300,000+ if you include the bombing of Tokyo.

    Nobody knows how a conventional war would have played out. To assert civilian deaths would have been higher is pure speculation and a gross attempt to justify the slaughter of noncombatants.

    Though it is likely that even without nukes, the US would have still razed these cities with conventional munitions, given the events in Tokyo.

  • Since you need me to explain the joke, here it is.

    It comes across as you making the assumption, "there are no biden bros in this thread".

    You then say not to make assumptions about people you know nothing about.

    So unless you know everyone in this thread, you are making an assumption about people who you know nothing about.

    It's comedic.

  • I would say it is quite well established that Israel wants to continue the conflict. I don't think that is an opinion at this point.

    Sure, the title isn't the best, but isn't that also the point they are trying to make?

    To put it briefly, the story is being reported on, but it seems that the media who live off clicks and eyeballs are basically doing the equivalent of "anti-clickbait" and downplaying the significance of these stories.

  • The referenced article primarily critiques the phrasing and tone of the headlines. Through engineering of the headline, you can affect how the body of the article is perceived. The headlines are all quite flaccid and downplay the significance of the refusal. Not coming to an agreement right now, is an admission of intent to enter Rafa.

    Headlines are very important as many people will only skim the title. Perhaps you did the same here, and were bamboozled by the headline of the original article?

    The links you posted here are just more examples of what the original piece was criticising.

  • Financial irregularities brought to light by the raid and subsequent investigations led to a conviction of the plant's chief executive Sholom on bank fraud and related charges.

    He was sentenced to 27 years in prison, but this led to an outcry by a bipartisan group of more than 100 former high-ranking and distinguished Department of Justice (DOJ) officials, prosecutors, judges, and legal scholars who expressed concern with the evidentiary proceedings in his case as well as with the severity of his sentence.

    On December 20, 2017, then-President Donald Trump commuted his sentence to time served, and his trial on immigration charges was canceled.

    Same article.

    https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Postville_raid

  • Neither the owner, Aaron Rubashkin, nor his sons Sholom and Heshy, who were in charge of the management of Agriprocessors, were convicted of immigration or labor law violations, although both Aaron and son Sholom were initially charged with 9,311 counts of child labor law violation, for which they could have faced over 700 years in prison if found guilty. All charges against Aaron were dropped right before the trial was scheduled to begin, and after a five-week trial Sholom was acquitted on all charges of violating child labor laws.

    https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Postville_raid

    Undocumented workers have no rights. If they don't accept the bad pay and conditions offered, they get reported. The state takes the current group of "troublemakers" away and you hire fresh immigrants.

    All charges being dropped against the owners of the plant just before the trial is either corruption or a plea deal. The owners very likely snitched on themselves in exchange for amnesty.

    Continued in reply...

  • Yes, but that is irrelevant. France involving themselves opens them up to retaliation from Russia. If Russia retaliated against France, and even if not strictly required to by Article 5, it is likely other NATO countries would join the conflict.

  • France putting "boots on the ground" would mean a direct conflict between nuclear powers and would likely drag in the entirety of NATO.

    Unless you want to live Fallout, such an escalation would be absolutely insane.