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It could be another Syria situation where Trump tries to pull out and the DoD and military just lies to him and keeps doing what they're doing.

I honestly don't know if Republicans would abandon Ukraine if they won the presidency. They're only against it because Biden supports it. With a Republican in office, they will switch to supporting whatever the President does.

Do you know what happened in Ukraine in the week before Feb 24 2022? Or the 8 years before that?

That's a fair and leveled response I was being optimistic that the war might end. But also I've actually graduated from the Paradox School of Keyboard Warriors and if Ukraine rushes the anti mine tech tree they can paint the map from the Black Sea to the Pacific.

I wasn't saying they will make gains. If they lose all their tanks in the offensive that will be significant as well. It's basically their last move.

This is actually pretty significant if the article is to be believed. Almost half of the mechanized equipment NATO sent being put to the test. Am I wrong in feeling like this will make or break the counteroffensive?

He barely scraped a win from Trump during the height of COVID. Now Biden is governing and the right HATE him.

Biden's chances seem strong right now, but what about a year from now? Inflation is rising for basic goods. Look at the US Strategic Petroleum Reserves, they're have plummeted to the lowest level since the 80s and that's barely keeping things humming. US moderates don't vote on policy, they vote based on the price of gas.

The funny thing is, Trump is probably the only guy who can lose to Biden. If the Republicans put basically anyone else forward, Democrats would lose steam and moderates would feel okay voting Republican again. It's a strange scenario this upcoming election, at this point seems impossible to predict.

Pretty much every assuming USians have about Russia comes from Nazi propaganda.

Do you think politics is just good guys and bad guys?

I think one issue is you are looking at schools as a monolith which of course has deep systemic and systematic problems. But schools can vary hugely in the quality of education. I'm not just talking about the difference between rural Alabama vs suburban California, even schools in the same district can vary a lot in quality of education delivered.

Calling the system a failure in every way is extreme to the point of being meaningless. Students do still learn how to read and write, basic maths and science, basic history. Obviously those are biased, especially history, but consider what would happen if there were no public schools even flawed as they might be. Children would literally be taught that the Earth is 3000 years old, Adam and Eve were the first humans, and in Utah that Native Americans were a Jewish tribe that had their skin turned red because of their sin.

There are shitty and abusive teachers out there, but I genuinely believe that most are in it to help children and are handcuffed by the system. And many, many teachers do their best to educate within the limitations of that system.

Cutting cops budgets tomorrow would immediately help people. Cutting school budgets would immediately make things worse for children. I urge you to rethink your position. We shouldn't eliminate hospitals because the healthcare is shit.

Isn't that being idealistic though? In socialist society every institution would look completely different. But we are nowhere near building socialism in America and children need to go to school. So some compromise has to be made. And I would 100% rather tax dollars go to teachers and students rather than cops.