No, DT is completely responsible here.
indeed. pretty much all you said is factual. however
But that might have allowed Obama to take credit, and one thing DT can't stand is anybody other than him taking credit for anything.
while there is no denying his obvious responsibility, that's a speculation on his motives. mine would be that it makes sense the voices that ordered him to trash the jpcoa would be the same voices whispering in his ear 8 years later to press the button. whoever they really are, these voices have been whispering to many potuses to great effect and all have played along but none until trump was crazy or weak enough to tackle the final boss. this has been a very, very long quest, rushing through iraq, syria, lybia, lebanon. so you can blame the pawn for making a dumb move, but you should pay attention to who is playing the bigger game. anyway
We should have quit while we were ahead, and let Iran go to hell in their own way.
"we" (i'm european, but europeans are complicit so
btw why would you wish iran to hell?
Iran is an enemy to the world.
in your artificial nightmares. what iran has just become is the new dominant power in the region, which makes it a very relevant player in the world necessary to deal with. you will be surprised. ofc irrelevant dumbfucks like you living in lalaland will have a hard time adjusting to that reality but a) who gives a fuck and b) isn't that how karma is supposed to work once in a while? enjoy. bye
which would be even worse. the first case could be a programmer mistake that somehow was missed by security audits. incredibly gross, but still, stuff like that can happen. the second case would imply that the gadget's security was designed by a total nutcase.
well, it's not going to work, so in the end it's still incompetence
i'm baffled to say this, but consider yourself modded funny
some not at all negligible part of the world is substantially better off.
there is no question that this war falls squarely on trump. however, it has been brewing for decades. he's just the buffoon who pulled the trigger and is going to take full blame. but many, many other reptiles are really to blame. if for some reason you want to blame potuses only, those glorified stewards, you can blame every single one since pretty much eisenhower, possibly with the exception of jfk. but you will still be missing a lot. there is a reason iran has been preparing for this very moment for more than 40 years, and this moment marks the end of western civilization's rape of western asia, or "middle east" if you prefer, and also the end of western civilization as you knew it. was about time, you will get used to it.
it seems you're having trouble focusing attention to parse context in literally 2 one-liners, so i'll highlight it for you:
Russia is geographically in Asia but politically considered European.
they have been trying for decades, but i wouldn't bet on russians having any desire to be considered part of europe at this point anymore.
but let me guess
Nope, it was the employees claim of "getting followed"
yet the point the officer made was "bringing out the camera", not "following". i know, i know, that's probably standard interview technique, right? now that i think of it
anyway, merely "following" doesn't seem a crime to me either. but it's probably also a red flag that escalates etc
No, that is a subjective opinion
yeah, all opinions are, pretty much. mine is that all this plausible denial is all fine and dandy but, in all honesty, i just don't buy it. my spider sense tells me that there is a tacit understanding between flock folks and police folks. not a conspiracy, mind, but they work together after all, have shared interests and are facing social resistance and pressure (rightfully so, in my subjective opinion). gotta help each other out, right? that's why the very first thing the caller says is that he works for flock, the operator immediately understands why he doesn't want to identify himself and
"go for the eyes, boo!!!"
i'm eyeing bg3 too but pushing it ahead for now because i'm pretty certain i will get sucked into it.
You are referring to an officer at a traffic stop? You do realize that is one of the most dangerous things that an officer does, walk up to a car they just stopped?
well, that just sucks. dunno, for some reason it isn't where i live
Did the activist video themselves while following, that is the relevant evidence?
we have the 911 call. it seems to confirm that calling the police is standard procedure (first thing he does is identifying himself as a "flock worker"), but it also sheds some light on what was apparently happening:
- "i'm getting followed, harassed pretty much, getting videos and pictures".
"getting videos and pictures" is not harassment except under very specific circumstances. i guess if there were such aggravating circumstances he would have made them clear. he wasn't asked about them either. he wasn't asked about the actual problem. so, in effect, three police cars were dispatched to intercept a man at gunpoint for "getting videos and pictures".
next we have the officer's inital interpelation:
- "he said that he did see you coming out and bringing out the camera and everything"
dunno, maybe "and everything" refers to a flamethrower, or a katana/wakizashi combo and the camera was just a ruse
In summary, there is no ONE story. There are multiple
this is absolutely true, kurosawa depicted it brilliantly in rashomon. so we are left with the bits and pieces. i'm thinking you are giving a lot of importance to the one important bit that is completely missing (the actual harassment, or the reckless persecution) and bringing forward hypotheses of why it might have happened, when all the other pieces seem to point to the fact that it never did. not the least the man's demeanor in the whole story, the man is a gentleman!
He who is content with his lot probably has a lot.
