This is so cringe...
Ok, child.
FDR was US president at the time
And now he isn't.
His speech was a call to action to mobilize US industry and labor for war to massively increase US assistance to European war efforts.
You are ignoring the entire historical background, assuming you're at all familiar with it. Americans didn't want to get into the war because they didn't give two fucks about Europe.
This is a load of manifest ignorance. Everyone should listen to FDRs arsenal of democracy speech at least once in their lives.
FDR was one guy. Also, what we're talking about here is actual actions, not fancy fine words.
I do agree that for whatever use a simple left-right axis is (obviously politics is vastly multidimensional) "left vs. right" is a circle, not a horseshoe. You look at people like Greenwald, Assange, etc and it's easy to see how people loop around the back end.
Basically toward the centre you tend to have the attitude of "the fundamental system is not wrong, but we need to fix X and Y" (just with disagreements over what is right, what is wrong, and what the fixes are). Whereas the more polarized you get to the left and right, the more convinced you are that everything is wrong and it doesn't just need fixes, it needs to be torn down and rebuilt in some new glorious utopian form. So as you approach the backside, you have some unifying attitudes of hating the country and global systems, more prone to supporting demagogues, anti-democratic tendencies, militarism, demonization of the centre (usually under the mistaken belief that the centre actually supports them, whereas actual centrist views are represented only by oppressive minority), etc. The enemies of your country get treated as heroes (for example, the like of both the far-left and far-right of Russia), even when they not only want to see your country destroyed, but are actually ideologically quite different from you. Also, misogyny often starts to creep in through the backdoor of militarism and demogoguery.
Certain sides may be more prone to certain aspects - for example, the right, with its love of guns, is usually an easier slide into militancy, whereas the left, coming from having been in the opposition during the Cold War, usually has an easier route into hating the country, for example. But there gets to be enough unifying aspects on the backend between the far-left and the far-right that some people can swing all the way around.
It sounds like you said it is simultaneously far left and far right?
This is so weird. I haven't visited the site the early Afghan War, maybe early Iraq War era, but I remember it being rather US-jingoistic, pretty right wing? And the site tilt was pretty heavily "white American male" not a famously left-wing demographic.
Meh, I knew of Fark back when all that was at the site was a single photo of a squirrel with large genitals.
I used to play on the mud Three Kingdoms in the mid '90s, and Drew was a Wizard (admin) there (named "Cletus"). When Fark became a link aggregator, I used to visit for the Photoshop contests (then ended up drifting off to Worth1000 when that became a thing). I'm not surprised that he ended up launching a porn site, because, well, Drew, but they launched a TV service that ended up getting gobbled up by Adult Swim? Weird.
Crazy to see all of the stuff that's happened with the site since I left; it entirely dropped off my radar.
The mobile base station would need to be part of the telco's network in order to function - and these SUVs are not part of AT&T or Version's network
For the local cops, true.
For the feds, NSL incoming!
On one hand, the only way society should accept surveillance is if it's applied to the elites first.
On the other hand, there's no way we can trust that it's being applied to the elites at all.
Therefore, there's no way we can trust surveillance at all.
Israel was created to get Jews out of Europe.
Israel was proposed to get Jews out of Europe, but then the UK decided it didn't want to run that ball in because (among other reasons) T.E. Lawrence convinced them it would lead to atrocity. The US is ok with atrocities (being founded on top of them) and went ahead and completed the touchdown and has been busy spiking the ball directly into Iran ever since. If you still think the US gives two shits about Europe after refusing to enter WWII until after Pearl Harbor, I really have no idea what to say to you about that.
I figured if I read the comments on this post, I'd find all the incels and rednecks whining about Fark.
And you were right. I read a few of their threads and they all eventually led to crying about "woke". If the "problem" with Fark is that they now don't tolerate n-slurs, then perhaps I will give it another chance.
Kind of but not really. The IMEI number can be changed on most (all?) devices but this has gotten harder over time, and your provider has to know what it is to provide you with phone service anyway.
seems a certain country is again invading America
Yes, it's America.
Israel was founded by the US specifically for fucking up the middle east, mission accomplished.
Wondering how to get more ROI, we used it to conduct research the taxpayer wouldn't pay for here, but accepted "foreign aid" for Israel. Then we import the technology.
Yes and no. Starbucks seems dominant and they over-roast their coffee. It works well for the super sugary espresso drinks but terrible for anything else. We have every imaginable variety of coffee just like anyone else. I am drinking a perfectly normal espresso roast right now, in a cappuccino.
They were almost to an incident, never prosecuted.
They also to an incident (and not almost) didn't smear shit on the walls or kill cops. Your false equivalence here is obvious support for the same child raping president you claim to not support. No one is stupid enough to buy your bullshit here.
Unless those servers are owned by Microsoft, and then they've had multiple breakins where there are no logs so they don't know what happened
Round Numbers are always false. -- Samuel Johnson
