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Good to note when this overgrown child gets his turn to be regime changed.

Trump's tariffs in his first term were also a mistake, but Biden kept them and even added onto them. Biden should shut the fuck up for costing the democrats the election because he was too power-hungry to let go, even though he's a walking fossil. Seriously, he's so decrepit but instead of relaxing and enjoying the remainder of his life, he chose to stick around like a ghoul and hand Trump a second term.

What's even worse than the major mistake of a bunch of silly tariffs is the supporting of genocide, which Biden loved doing. He couldn't get enough of supporting genocide. That's his legacy and he shouldn't bother trying to talk about mistakes because he's just about the worst person to talk about doing the wrong thing.

https://www.atlanticcouncil.org/blogs/new-atlanticist/zelenskyy-wants-ukraine-to-be-a-big-israel-heres-a-road-map/

Makes sense.

israel does not have the right to exist, not when it does horrific shit like this.

Trump can already pardon himself. Even if he couldn't, making enemies of the rich wouldn't help himself, in fact it'd just do the opposite. The ultrawealthy have class solidarity, so Trump was never in actual trouble. They only face consequences if not doing so would majorly harm the collective image of the rich (e.g. this is why Jeffrey Epstein had to die).

If they make it too hard I’ll stop watching.

Exactly. There is practically an infinite supply of entertainment with a wide variety these days. There are too many alternatives to care about any single source.

If I'm hitting 10 hours of sleep, it's generally because I've been missing out on sleep, though I generally feel great after that 10 hours. If I get enough days in a row where I can sleep uninterrupted, then I seem to settle at around 8 hours.

Ah, so that's where Chiclets gets its name.

Plenty of them have expressed concern over who has taken over, so you're not even correct on this point you're trying to focus on. You're painting a much more optimistic picture than what the reality warrants. Recent history backs me up, but we'll see what happens within the next year or so. Until then, we're just squabbling over what some random Syrians have said.

Yeah, gee, I wonder why people who fled a war would say it's bad where the war is. Keep in mind that the majority of voters in the US voted for Trump because they thought Biden was the reason for the price of eggs.

Oh excuse me for listening to what actual Syrians have been saying. You obviously know better.

This is always a funny thing to say because you seem to think a handful of views repeated by media interviews represent the views of an entire country.

Yes, that’s called a revolutionary wave. Or are those allowed for white people of previous centuries?

That's hilarious that you'd make this statement implying that I think only white people can have a "revolutionary wave" which, by the way, plays out much differently in reality than compared with a time-compressed account written after the fact.

The rest of your comment is apologia for (brutal) state repression. Not interested.

Cool, revel in your ignorance and then be shocked and amazed when the inevitable happens. Pointing out that Assad, Saddam, and Gaddafi were better than what came after is not apologia, it's just the reality, just like how pointing out genocide-supporting Biden is better than Trump is not genocide apologia.

Fucko pop should be forced to pay damages. It's too easy for shitty companies to send out takedown notices and too difficult for those takedown notices to be contested by comparison.

Your mistake is in thinking that people simply asked for democracy. The movement gained its moment from the "Arab Spring" and as regimes were being toppled, someone spray painted basically "you're next" to Assad. Tell me, which country would tolerate such a threat? Try doing that in the US and you'll have the feds up your ass in a hot minute, even though the US is a much more stable country with nowhere near the same threat of the government being forcefully changed.

Obviously war is horrible, but what Syria had before then was better than what Lebanon had and has now. The war was quickly hijacked (or, perhaps, even started with help) by outside forces and was stretched out to over a decade. You could say that Assad should've just stepped down, but you could just as easily say that these outside groups should've just stopped as well. A bunch of far-right religious troglodytes don't necessarily represent the people any better.

I can understand the momentary feeling of relief as fighting hits something of a lull and a pivotal moment of change occurs, but very soon people will see that the change will not be for the better. I slap a guarantee on it based on what has happened in the past, including the very recent past, with Iraq and Libya. People were saying the same thing when they were liberated and look at them now. I wish things would turn out better, but it seems obvious to anyone paying attention that there is so small a chance of that happening that it may as well be zero.

Are you new to the internet?

I wish she was trolling. The olympics could use some ridicule for how ridiculous it is.

According to this, it had originally literally meant "exempt from royal tax": https://www.etymonline.com/word/scot-free#etymonline_v_22952

Pineapple gets an outsized amount of attention as a pizza topping for how mid it is. I don't hate or love it, I'm simply okay with it.

overseen a peaceful transition to democracy

Paving the way for outside actors to mess with those elections. Look at how much democracy Lebanon has with all its parties and yet it's a giant mess. Americans complain about Russian interference in US elections but somehow don't understand how that problem is far worse in a country with a tiny fraction of the resources that the US has. In fact, the US would be one of those outside actors trying to influence the elections, which they've done for many decades now in many different countries.

The future is uncertain: this is what freedom looks like. My entire heart goes out to the Syrian people. Hopefully the maniacs leading the HTS and the SNA will not manage to smother them.

This is what freedom for the most brutal looks like. The most brutal tend to be religious fanatics because they think they have God on their side and they're willing to die for their cause. You can guarantee that whoever comes out on top will be establishing an ultraconservative theocracy and things will be worse for the Syrian people (except for those who are into that shit, maybe).

I've seen a junior developer use it to more quickly get a start on things like boiler plate code, configuration, or just as a starting point for implementing an algorithm. It's kind of like a souped up version of piecing together Stack Overflow code snippets. Just like using SO, it needs tweaking, and someone who relies too much on either SO or AI will not develop the proper skills to do so.

If four years is not enough time, especially when we had years of material to work with beforehand, including two impeachments, then it was clearly never going to happen. This is the common strategy of doing things as slow as possible to show progress is being made, but it's such small progress that it's effectively at a standstill. It's what democrats use to pretend they're fighting for progress when in reality they're just upholding the status quo until the next republican term. We've ping-ponged between republican and democratic party rule almost evenly, yet the country is becoming more and more fascist. There is a reason for that.