I was genuinely hoping the Dems might choose to back, e.g., Bergman in exchange for some concessions. We would have had a less crazy, more competent speaker in that case.

Clearly, European powers and the US are going to work the Israel half of the problem and Saudi Arabia and Turkey can work the Palestinian half of their problem. With enough participation in the process, perhaps Iran will even shut up long enough for it to work.

Perhaps France, the original defense partner of Israel? Or Germany, who supplies all of Israel’s navy?

This is objectively false. One party deals entirely in culture warfare with no idea how to govern. The other at least tries to interface with real world problems.

All this “we” shit smacks entirely too much of cis het white middle class privelage

I mean, maybe? But in the meantime, don’t cite them as primary sources, ok?

This is literally the blog of some dude in Texas.

When you dismantle an empire, citizens die.

Also, it won’t be West that does it. It will be Desantis.

West has no power and no hope of victory, so he can say whatever the duck he wants. The rest of us have to be realists.

The linked story is about a broadcast channel, so …

As another poster mentioned, this isn’t dog whistling. I think it’s close to the card says moops

Also there is the famous quote by Sartre:

Never believe that anti-Semites are completely unaware of the absurdity of their replies. They know that their remarks are frivolous, open to challenge. But they are amusing themselves, for it is their adversary who is obliged to use words responsibly, since he believes in words. The anti-Semites have the right to play. They even like to play with discourse for, by giving ridiculous reasons, they discredit the seriousness of their interlocutors. They delight in acting in bad faith, since they seek not to persuade by sound argument but to intimidate and disconcert. If you press them too closely, they will abruptly fall silent, loftily indicating by some phrase that the time for argument is past.

That downward slope there? That’s the prime years of the first generation coming into their own with internet porn; pornhub launched in 2007. 2014 is clearly subject to some effect – there’s reason to think it’s increased rates of reporting – but we’re literally back at 1990 levels in terms of reporting. If you’re going to blame 2014 on porn that had been around 15 years, then how do you explain the early 90s?

I think it’s dangerous and disingenuous to substitute your imagination for evidence when describing a trend that doesn’t appear to exist.

Reported rates of rape are the same in 2020 as in 1990

Every dollar he spends on defense lawyers is one he doesn’t spend on campaign ads

Ever had to write a research paper where the books didn’t want to let you read them?

You’re ignoring that congress does, in fact, ordain supreme court justices

Remember: everything is projection

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freedom_of_navigation

International shipping: just one of the freedoms protected by the modern us armed forces

To be fair, I don’t think deBoer is really a leftist, but someone who claims to be leftist to seem authoritative when he shits on leftists, ala David Brooks. He’s a high school teacher with a handful of bad articles and a book that argues people are born dumb or smart and can’t be changed.

I agree. This is a David Brooks level of stupid, focusing on aesthetics rather than substance. A

OC is a politician with 4 years of experience from a state with 26 representatives, some of whom have been in the house for 25 years. That she has had to compromise and work within a system is not a great shock – power is not something she has an abundance of!

Nobody could accomplish what the author seems to want; that doesn’t mean AOC has accomplished nothing.

What other countries? The only global power that is a near peer of the US with respect to military power is China.

There are geopolitical reasons that the US is in the position it is, and while a distributed system might be nice, unless the underlying geopolitical realities change, the US is stuck at the top

Yes, but also no, imo. We absolutely need to accomplish those objectives.

But … Do we need to have a system that requires us to buy Tomahawk missiles at whatever cost Raytheon decides to charge? All the weapons we use are supplied by a single company, and the military does not own the IP for their weapons, even the ones initially invented by military research bases (e.g., sidewinder).

Our system of military contractors has, imo, failed us utterly while making a handful of companies incredibly rich