roguetrick

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[–] roguetrick@kbin.social 33 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (7 children)

The U.S. has significant leverage over Israel as its main supplier of weapons and military equipment.

They sure don't seem to, considering they never even explicitly threaten to use that leverage. Even the call, based on a situation that supposedly left Biden anguished, was still an implicit threat. At least based on what's published.

If Biden wants to actually get any change done he should damn well know that getting rid of Bibi is the only way to do that. The best way to get rid of Bibi is to make the Knesset realize he's an existential threat to Israel because he's about to cause the US to cut off support.

[–] roguetrick@kbin.social 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I don't think you'll ever get a concrete answer on this because different people treat even basic numbers differently none the less assigning value to them. I like upvoted/downvote view because I like being able to see what's controversial. It means a comment is both important to show a dividing line but also might be misleading.

Edit: note of course, I'm saying this while on an instance that doesn't even federate downvotes at the moment.

[–] roguetrick@kbin.social 14 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

That's never going to happen. The best you could hope for with any military is a court martial. And even that's never going to happen.

Maybe a truth and reconciliation commission after the parents are long dead.

[–] roguetrick@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago

Any of the bug. I left i vague because I think there's still a chance for a disruptive force to enter the market.

[–] roguetrick@kbin.social 10 points 1 year ago (2 children)

That's the point. This entire thing is complaining about SEO. If your business model is serving ads with SEO and not retaining people with quality content, I'm not going to get too upset about it.

Google is killing itself with this shit, but it doesn't really matter. People will move back to Link aggregators and actually working to get the search results they need.

[–] roguetrick@kbin.social 28 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It's the note that really did it for me.

[–] roguetrick@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I'm sure it's an absolute coincidence that the British raised man thinks the religion of the areas his people colonized is inherently barbaric then, huh?

[–] roguetrick@kbin.social 2 points 1 year ago (5 children)

What a shock, atheists are subject to the same xenophobia that Christians are and people will go through tortious logical arguments to justify their irrational thoughts.

It's almost like this is a basic human condition that must be overcome with effort.

[–] roguetrick@kbin.social 43 points 1 year ago (7 children)

I'm surprised the white house doesn't just host a mastodon server. I'm sure they consider using unvetted software to communicate to be a security risk, but it's no less a risk to put your communication channels in the hands of a third party.

[–] roguetrick@kbin.social 57 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

They're saying the ring around the North and South Pole is actually 1:1 scale. An inch of land is an inch of map.

[–] roguetrick@kbin.social 11 points 1 year ago (2 children)

So your argument is they don't understand the US presidential system because a vote against Biden in the Wisconsin Democratic primary is a vote for Trump?

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