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Comment Sure, I'll bite (Score 1) 185

Trump's disastrous mishandling of the covid pandemic and his inability to do what Obama did and keep the virus overseas like Obama did with bird flu means that it spread and devastated supply chains. Furthermore 4 years of trump refusing to enforce antitrust law created even more consolidation with less competition and more monopolies. Finally Trump gave away trillions of dollars to the 1% who used it to buy up even more companies and jack up prices on everything.

Biden came in like a Democrat always does after a republican crashes and destroys everything and started putting things back together. But because he didn't do it fast enough and because you are easily distracted by woke PC dei trans girls telling you happy holidays while playing esports Mortal Kombat Mortal panics you didn't go by the 8 years Democrats normally get to undo some of the damage while the Republicans sabotage everything they can in the meantime.

So even though Joe Biden had a plan to lower prices by doing extensive trust busting all that's gone now because you're a 12-year-old child and a grown man's body and orange man good.

You will spend the last few years of your 12-year-old life homeless and if you're lucky one of your crotch fruit will let you crash on their sofa.

Comment I'm seeing a lot of MRI related content (Score 1, Insightful) 32

In my feed lately. And I'm guessing it's because the news media really really wants to cover Trump's MRI but isn't allowed to. I mean except for the British press.

A member of Congress just pointed out that the spots on Trump's hands are probably from an IV used to administer in Alzheimer's drug and that the MRIs are likely because the drug has a side effect that can cause brain swelling and they are monitoring for that.

What's weird is while this is going on suddenly I get all these stories in my feed and on pages I frequent about mris. The algorithm knows that MRIS or being searched for by people because even though the regular news media isn't allowed to talk about Trump's medical condition people have Google and are using it.

I suspect what's happening is that most newsrooms will monitor frequently searched keywords and start running stories about them to soak up ad revenue. People are searching for MRI because Trump is in the news and The newsroom is ordering stories about it.

It's kind of bizarrely cool and a cyberpunk kind of way.

Comment Re:Good for her! (Score 1) 98

Then everyone will start using it as an excuse to attack other people. Especially the cops - they hate being filmed. They will claim it was "aggressive" and justified violence.

A guy called Graham Linehan was just convicted of smashing a girl's phone, when she filled an interaction where she asked him why he called her a "groomer" on twitter, and worse. It was the right judgement, he had no need to do it, and mere annoyance can't be enough or everyone will be smashing stuff they dislike.

Comment Re:Was it a Russian drone? (Score 1) 51

Let me suggest that the damage done to Germany by the Nordstream action was a magnitude greater than any damage done to the dome at Chernobyl.

Considering the pipeline was not operating yet you might be wrong but ask Germany. Also it's not the action itself at Chernobyl it's the potential consequences of the action that is the concern but that might be too much forward thinking for some. Also no-one seem interested in finding out? Isn't the most comprehensive investigation from the Germans?

Apparently you cared enough to lie about it. Russia has consistently claimed it was acting in self-defense and defense of ethnic Russians in Ukraine.

Lie about what? I acknowledge Russia says a thing that does not make it true or an acceptable justification for anything.

NATO was intervening in an ethnic conflict to prevent genocide, contrary to your claim that was not ever a sufficient reason for military intervention.

Not to prevent but to stop an ongoing genocide

Call me what you will but even I, the opposite propagandist know these are like the level 1 from your side. Go back to motherbase, get the 2025 talking points, you're still on the 2022 version. At least I'm good at it! (because the facts are on my side)

Comment Re:Social Norms (Score 5, Insightful) 98

Say a guy had a camera out and was snapping shots and taking video on the subway of everyone. Would that be considered acceptable?

No, it would piss off a lot of the other passengers - even though it is legal behavior.

Talk to someone who does street photography about their confrontations sometime.

Comment Re:Was it a Russian drone? (Score 1) 51

Nordstream is a given I'll say that but it does not carry the risk to relations nearly as much as Chernobyl, is also in the ocean and was likely rebels, not a state action.

Russia points to the Maidan revolution and following civil war as being instigated by Ukrainian "Nazis' spurred on by NATO

Who cares? Everyone knows that is not factually true. Do you think that's true? It's not true you know.

Russia does not lean on an attack on their people or terriroty as one of their many justifications.

Serbia

Oh, pray tell, and what was happening in Serbia that wasn't happening in Ukraine?

Comment Re:Was it a Russian drone? (Score 4, Insightful) 51

Who is going to find them out and hold them to account? No one.

What do you mean? Everyone! Europe would not be happy with that. The USA would not. Russia has every incentive to expose such an action if it took place. Belarus would also be very incentivized. Seriously, think about it.

This is a war and both sides are to blame.

No, this is an invasion. Ukraine did not attack Russia, even Russia acknowledges that. You can say an invasion is justified and make that case but that's the position you're starting from, Ukraine was not looking to war with Russia, you can't just hand wave a "uhh, both sides" here and that does all your cognitive work.

Calling it ethnic is one of the justifications Russia gives but if you think about that's not something we would use to justify an invasion from anyone. It's bullshit, this is political and a power grab. Putin isn't exactly secret about things.

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