crazyyarick.bsky.social
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If you can't see the stark difference between an admin that was ineffective and an admin that is actively hostile/enabling, I can't help you.
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No "opposing genocide" was not the point. Preventing it from getting to the point where it can unequivocally be called a genocide, was. Israel was always going to have a military response to oct 7, but starving the pop wasn't modus operandi during Biden's watch
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British campaign in China.
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Pretty much. The timing of Himars and other aid for Ukraine killed many of the defenders unnecessarily. I will take that any day over the arbitrary cut off of aid and the treatment of the UA pres that we have now.
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Yeah. Not good. the interruption of weapons shipments was too short, late, and insufficient. Biden treated FP as if it had more inertia than he needed to.
Like I said. Slow.
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I would have preferred that the rebels got Assad but I guess we can wait for cancer.
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I will say that, as with most of that administration's responses it was slow, but the Biden admin forced aid through, stalled many operations, and generally tried to tame the Israeli response. Not great(or good even) but something compared to now.
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Give Ukraine a platform that is untested, canceled, and will have no parts for maintenance? That seems unwise.
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Yes. Companies use sugar to make their food more addictive. Whether that sugar is cane, beet, or hfcs is irrelevant. That is my point.
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All I'm saying is the additive is irrelevant and isn't "poison." People just need to realize that their diet needs to be less sweet altogether. That's hard, but we must not find a boogey man that we can scapegoat to allow us to continue on eating sweets.
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The difference between the metabolism of sucrose and the metabolism of fructose is minimal to the point of irrelevance(one extra reaction). Having the fifth cupcake, regardless of which sugars are used, is the primary issue.
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Corn syrup is just sugar. If they stuck to cane sugar and never replaced it with hfcs, then we would have the same issues.
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That is how geography works. Poland was closer to the Soviet Union than to either Normandy or Italy. The American and British forces liberated camps in other parts of Europe.
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You have been to Denver. Colorado has a pretty big disparity between Denver and anything outside of a 50-100 mile radius. Anything not touching Denver has a 90% chance of being batshit.
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Рыжий Агент
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He didn't stop shit. He may have said he stopped something, but then if you even take 3 seconds to look, then you will see that he explicitly left all of the mechanisms for Russian oil and gas export.
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He literally carved out exemptions for the Saudis and UAE.
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You cant cook up a ship manifest for islands that don't have a port to harbor your ship(I mean I guess you can buy that is and was always illegal). Also if an island is "owned" by a country then it's under their flag and would be tariffed.
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Wtf are you talking about. Ukraine stopped the pipeline not the US. The EU was buying more and more US gas(probably won't now). Trump sheltered the Saudis from all oil and gas tariffs.
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How? Oil and gas are exempt for countries like Saudi Arabia and the UAE. That was the loophole. The oil was shipped into those countries, mixed with domestic, refined, then shipped out. How did he stop Russian oil?
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The beef labeling policy was revised in 2024. Before Trump. none of this matters though. A tariff is a tax on importation from a country. So putting it on an island that literally cannot ship any goods is meaningless.
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Point of manufacture would not change. As such tariffs would still be in effect. You like Russians getting tax breaks, right?
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If islands with no people, or countries that don't really trade with us get tariffs, then Russia can get tariffs. You know… for when they lift the sanctions(an inevitably at this point).
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I have a feeling that the current regime is going to lose a lot more from hurting lockmart than they can even imagine.
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It doesn't matter what ideology or principles you have. You always have to keep fighting for them, and you will always get tired after a decade. Your progress will regress and will need to be rebuilt.
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Not wholly accurate. Spacex did receive an upfront payment for the starship contract. The one that was originally solely given to SpaceX despite this not being standard practice for NASA. A contract that starship is super behind on its milestones.
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To be clear. I'm not saying Biden was perfect. His slow rolling of aid, his "don't hit Russia" stance, and many other things WERE bad. This is just a different level and a level that doesn't line up with other facts.
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27% of French people are wrong. It seems like the US govt is trying everything it can to correct them.
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This makes zero sense with the timeline of events. For more than two months prior, US intelligence was screaming that RU was going to invade. It was doing so to alert EU and UA partners. Why would it do that if it had backroom deals with ru?
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Also Wyoming for some reason.
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Because I said they can go fuck themselves? Nah bro. I just want an actual solution and not Gaza Lago. Their idiocy didn't cause the failure of the campaign, but it was pathetic.
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You know what. With things as they are now. Yeah, uncommitted can go fuck themselves. No one has done more to hurt Palestinians.
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Who the fuck do you think trump is? She may be a "vessel" but he IS the thing you say you hate. If the choice is a sun burn or 3rd degree, you get the sunburn and keep walking until you reach shade.
Grow up.
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Workers ARE stupid. You need to explain your policy as you would to a hyperactive, inattentive child… or lie. Trump won because he just promised them all desert.
This isn't cynicism either. We are ALL stupid. Some of us can just pay attention sometimes.
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Unions overwhelmingly endorsed Biden and Harris. Sad fact is that many union members sat out or voted Trump.
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Workers don't care. You and I are an infinitesimal speck on the word "workers." We don't matter for the purposes of discussing the group.
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"I would rather still have the ability to turn off the stove than just be incinerated" that's the choice we have today. Why is that the only choice? Because dipshits like you decided that long term planning is for losers.
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Who the fuck is in the majority of the working class!? It's not communists! So if you make an appeal to the thoughts of the "worker" you are not talking about communists.
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I would rather complicit than accelerationist. I would rather have a department of labor that stands with unions 50+% of the time than one that doesn't exist.
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As a worker as well, I think it's funny how little "leftists" understand their own ideology. Who makes up "workers?" It's mostly conservatives and "shit libs" in the US. Who is more likely to care about Gaza of those two? The "shit libs"
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When I said that liberalism has been on decline since the 80s, as such it cannot be the cause of our current predicament, you just ignored it and wanted to read your script?
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The US has had a massive counter nationalist swing since the Iraq war and liberalism(law based order with primacy on personal freedom) has been in decline since the 80s. Wtf is an egg.
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What a completely wrong statement. Such conviction too.
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Sure. You can say she ran a weak campaign, but what the hell does Aipac have to do with workers?
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I'm gonna break your heart. Workers don't care about Gaza and barely understand insurance. Plus we see what the alternative for Gaza is. Something that aipac couldn't even dream of.
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Fought for every worker protection… except those that they criticized over the last 4 years. Remember, it's not 1925, it's 2025. Your forefathers convinced everybody of workers rights. You didn't fight for shit.
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There is this. Also I would say that there has been a massive over conflation of neoliberalism with just liberalism. They are not the same idea. Because of that, parts of the left seem determined to be assholes to "liberals" as much as possible.
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And the non liberal left has done…?