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I know quitting is hard

Uh, you can't just turn in your two weeks when you're in the military. There's a reason why AWOL is a thing. And you can't apply as a conscientious objector to an individual conflict. Even if you apply, it can still be denied.

You have agency

You literally don't, unless you'd prefer prison and dishonorable discharge.

Edit: The thread's about Iran, not whatever pet grievance you have.

This isn't rocket science. Most Americans were (and are) unhappy with the direction of the country and she was the status quo candidate. She literally said she couldn't think of a single policy difference between herself and Biden, an unpopular president. And the tone-deaf joy campaign—give me a break. People were (and are) angry. A populist was always going to win this election, but she didn't campaign as a populist.

Like most Democrats, she also lacked the courage of her convictions, as evidenced by how quickly she backed away from voicing progressive policies from 2020 like Medicare for All. Or maybe her convictions were more moderate and the progressive positions were the ploy? Who even knows? What few meek ideas she did put forward she quickly backed away from after closed-door fundraisers with rich investors.

I voted for her despite all of this. I wrote letters to swing state voters. But it was a pretty grim march to November, because I saw all of these things way before the election and knew with near certainty that she was going to lose.

The ocean needs to hurry up and retake Florida.

Kind of bizarre they have a photo of Warren as the top image for the headline "Senate Democrats Help GOP Pass Crypto Bill" when she's been the most vocal one against passing it.

No one has been a bigger critic of the GENIUS Act than Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.), the ranking member on the U.S. Senate Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs, who has warned that in addition to weak protections for consumers and financial stability, the bill allows tech companies to issue their own private currencies and "take control over the money supply."

She also said that the GENIUS Act mirrors the passage of the 2000 passage of the Commodity Futures Modernization Act (CFMA), which deregulated derivatives and helped the product proliferate in the lead-up to the financial crisis of 2008.

Sure. I dislike her, but she's been vocally anti-interventionist for many years. She hitched her wagon to someone who doesn't actually care about any of it.

Anyone in this administration who has any values whatsoever is destined to fail, because the leader they're so obsequious to has none.

It's really not that complicated. Trump is a bully and loves piling on to prove he's the alpha male. But he's also a coward (like many bullies) and is afraid to wade into something that will spiral out of control. So he's trying to subjugate the government of Iran using threats so he can get the satisfaction of the former without the risk of the latter.

"Not since Truman..."

So Huckabee wants to nuke Iran?

Also, tell me this is not a letter that would be written to Kim Jong Un if the names were swapped.

In [Trump's] view, Iran was “very close” to having a nuclear bomb.

Those are clearly Netanyahu's words in his mouth. Netanyahu has been loudly and confidently saying that at regular intervals since 2012. Iran is always weeks away.

You mean ceded. Seceded is what the West Coast should do.

It's interesting that you post a message like that when yours is the majority position on Lemmy and comes up regularly. Any time I post conflicting data on the election, I'm down voted at about a 40/60 ratio up/down. Meanwhile politically I'm somewhere between Lenin and Bernie.

War in the Middle East is a Republican rite of passage. It's part of their heritage.

Did you forget about 2021-2023?

This is SO much worse than I thought it would be! By people who don't value nature or public good and would happily sell off the most unique part of America: its national parks.

Yep, there it is: "it isn't my fight." News flash: if the US falls, you guys will be next. Stop trying to shame others for things you're not (and wouldn't be) willing to do yourself.

You can always cross the border and satisfy your bloodlust, but we both know you'll say "it isn't my fight" and not do shit. Just go back to feeling morally superior from the comfort of your home.

Netanyahu was worried the US would achieve a deal with Iran and struck first.

A handful of lawmakers did oppose the Israeli strikes, however. Senator Chris Murphy (D-CT) argued that Tel Aviv’s war interfered with Trump’s effort to strike a new nuclear deal with Iran. “Netanyahu wasn’t trying to help diplomacy; he was trying to destroy diplomacy. How do we know? They reportedly targeted and killed Iran’s chief negotiator with Trump,” he wrote.

He says "we" all the time to refer to himself.

But luckily they'll be replacing fiber with something much worse

Bitcoin mining outpaces that easily. If you trade in Bitcoin, you're supporting enormous damage to the environment.

Just included for scale. Both are terrible.