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Post by Least censored on the planet! on Sept 24, 2020 12:01:48 GMT -5
it's mindfuckingly stupid to equate the slogan "Defund the police" to "decreasing it". DE. FUND. Meaning, the po po ain't going have any funds. I thought defund means "Cut the budget" not "Remove ALL the budget". Same reasons why you responding to me. Because you want to annoy me until I leave the forum? Really? You want to be the only one on this forum? Why does Yemen have any bearings do Iran having a policy of hanging and throwing gays of the building? It doesn't. It does, however, have a very direct link to highlighting the hypocrisy in pretending the sanctions against Iran are in any way linked to them killing gays. Stop being an hypocrite and I won't have to bring up the US weapons killing and maiming civilians in Yemen, with you electoral approval. Not since the 80's, but still talks to his family. So you have a friend that hasn't been in Iran for 40 years, gives you the best infos about how the sanctions are affecting the country . Dude pay attention. I already mentioned it. Went there twice. They're scared...that just want to live their lives in peace. Yeah, and the sanctions are doing the very opposite of "letting them live their life in peace". Same as the travel restriction making harder for people to leave Iran, etc, etc. Now, don't get me wrong. Helping Iranians create a credible political opposition against the current regime? I would applaud it. But imposing the harshest sanctions possible without caring to do that? That's criminal. Because there are two possible outcomes: either you don't succeed at creating a regime change, and you just inflicted unneeded cruelty on the population, or you succeed at creating a regime change, but the one in power will simply be the most ruthless, and that's key to get a regime worse than the current one. Yes it's possible, look at the Saudi or ISIS... All they need to do is to drop the nuclear weapons programs. Boom. Done. That's the biggest lie you ever said, and you don't even realize it. They could drop the nuclear weapon program and it wouldn't change a thing. What they need to do is to drop the nuclear weapon program, AND ALLOW US MILITARY INSPECTORS TO GO EVERYWHERE IN ALL THEIR MILITARY BASES. Anything less than absolute, total subjugation to the US won't be enough for you. Because "the strongest inspection regime ever", as described by experts from the UN, and recognized by experts worldwide to be effective, wasn't enough for you.So...you're saying they should have nukes. It wouldn't change anything either way ¯\_(ツ)_/¯. They won't drop one. Thanks to Trump they have every incentive to get one and zero incentive not to get one, so you will be able to see for yourself that they won't drop it even when they get it. And I'll be able to say "I told you so". Remember when I told you that this move discredited the reformists among the government and empowered the conservative (conservative means "people pushing for more human right abuse" here, as usual)? And you wouldn't believe me, and I got you several article from credible, unbiased sources saying it did? And you said "Okay, you were indeed able to find sources to back you up, but I still don't believe you somehow", or something like this?
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Post by Least censored on the planet! on Sept 24, 2020 12:15:45 GMT -5
News flash homies... we are more than our politics. If you let politics dominate your views, you'll be miserable. As wrote by someone absolutely unable to let go of his politics . Right, it's never your fault. Looks like you need a dose of humility of introspection. Absolutely everyone here thinks you are despicable. From the most ardent to the most agreeable, we are all in agreement. And it's not like we all share the same politics, look at Future War Cultist, ardent Brexit defender. I guess we ALL need a dose of humility and introspection, and you are fine and don't need anything .
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Post by Least censored on the planet! on Sept 24, 2020 12:18:17 GMT -5
A military coup is just another way democracy ends. Doing it even once for the right reasons is such a slippery slope. When half of the country doesn't want democracy anyway, a coup won't help protect it. You can't say "We won't allow the elected leader to remove democracy, so we'll depose him", because then you have deposed the elected leader. So US democracy is having a near-death experience right now.
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Post by hatoflords on Sept 24, 2020 12:22:41 GMT -5
There is an overt irony in the Republican take on Iran. By all accounts Iran abandoned it's nuclear weapons program in 2007-2008. It's unclear what the exact motives were, but they gave it up. As of this past summer, the facilities Iran shut down a decade ago when they gave up the program are rumored to be starting back up. They may have conclude that if they're going to be demonized whether they have a weapons program or not, they might as well have one. Look at all the book licking North Korea has gotten. The Reformer faction of the Iranian parliament is on the way out as a direct result of the destruction of the Iran Deal. The Hardliners are poised to sweep into power. We'll be dealing with radical hardliners in Iran probably for the next decade, at least. And the Israel deal handed over by the US is likely to work on getting Arab nations to support it, but is likely to simply hand more influence to Iran where non-state actors in the region are concerned. The Republicans have applied their 'break it so we can complain about it' strategy to a whole country. Truly a marvel.
The Iran Deal was a very forward looking move to stabilize a region poised for upheaval. The past year alone has seen huge strides in battery technology. Oil will soon be worth far less than it is now (and it's already worth far less), and it's hard to see how several ME countries will maintain their economies without oil revenues.
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Post by CommieCanUCK on Sept 24, 2020 12:32:58 GMT -5
it's mindfuckingly stupid to equate the slogan "Defund the police" to "decreasing it". DE. FUND. Meaning, the po po ain't going have any funds. I thought defund means "Cut the budget" not "Remove ALL the budget". It's mindfuckingly stupid to think that anyone with a modicum of intelligence and power would actually think that society can run without police, or that the police can run without funds, but here we are. That's the statement Whembles has made. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ Good ol' Whembles has painted himself into a corner here, where he has to admit to either mindfucking stupidity, or that he's being deliberately disingenuous, for SOME REASON.
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Post by Emblematic Wolfblade on Sept 24, 2020 12:44:54 GMT -5
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Post by hatoflords on Sept 24, 2020 23:00:40 GMT -5
Brutalizing people is something we just do apparently. The press is still free, to be brutalized. The sheer fact none of them have been thrown out of the country or imprisoned for complaining about it is the first sign that the US isn't China. Yet. Whatever. It's all rather empty hyperbole until Trump gets his way and can freely imprison/shut out any reporters he doesn't like. Though I imagine such a thing would be high on the priorities list if he's reelected. Heaven forbid anyone report on how he lost the popular vote again, which seems inevitable regardless of the EC outcome.
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Post by Emblematic Wolfblade on Sept 25, 2020 14:17:28 GMT -5
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Post by semipotentwalrus on Sept 25, 2020 15:16:11 GMT -5
He's not wrong, a center-right nation should arguably have center-right justices.
Shame the Republicans are far-right. They're not supported by a majority of the nation, so why should the Supreme Court reflect their opinions?
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Post by Emblematic Wolfblade on Sept 25, 2020 16:38:47 GMT -5
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Post by CommieCanUCK on Sept 25, 2020 18:25:05 GMT -5
Hmmm, can't he just pray hard enough and get jeebus to do that for him? Why does he need to rely on secular forces when he's such a special man of faith?
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Post by Emblematic Wolfblade on Sept 25, 2020 18:51:38 GMT -5
Hmmm, can't he just pray hard enough and get jeebus to do that for him? Why does he need to rely on secular forces when he's such a special man of faith? No, you see, they're just the instruments of god!
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Post by hatoflords on Sept 25, 2020 21:28:02 GMT -5
Looks like the nominee is Barret. A little research suggests she's not the nightmare justice some might fear, but definitely isn't the one progressives would ever want. Maybe. Some of her written papers make me think she might be another Gorsuch and Gorsuch has shown to not be entirely unreachable by progressive arguments if those arguments are presented in the right terms.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 26, 2020 19:42:19 GMT -5
Looks like the nominee is Barret. A little research suggests she's not the nightmare justice some might fear, but definitely isn't the one progressives would ever want. Maybe. Some of her written papers make me think she might be another Gorsuch and Gorsuch has shown to not be entirely unreachable by progressive arguments if those arguments are presented in the right terms.
Reading through her work thus far, I actually feel she's not qualified for hte Bench. She's only had three years as a Federal Judge. And her position on Roe v Wade is something out of A Handmaiden's Tale.
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Post by hatoflords on Sept 26, 2020 19:57:27 GMT -5
Looks like the nominee is Barret. A little research suggests she's not the nightmare justice some might fear, but definitely isn't the one progressives would ever want. Maybe. Some of her written papers make me think she might be another Gorsuch and Gorsuch has shown to not be entirely unreachable by progressive arguments if those arguments are presented in the right terms.
Reading through her work thus far, I actually feel she's not qualified for hte Bench. She's only had three years as a Federal Judge. And her position on Roe v Wade is something out of A Handmaiden's Tale.
Yeah well that's par for the course for Conservative court picks. The only possible bright side is that she seems like she might be persuadable on some things maybe but that's just looking for something to be positive about. *shrugs*
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