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I mean. Heās not wrong.
0% chance trump wrote a tweet with the word enclave.
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Iām not sure it matters if Iran actually did it or not. They would have been blamed anyway (it will be Iranian drone or missile tech at base whoever fired), and they likely could have prevented a Houthi attack if they didnāt support it, so in either case they were fine with it happening and were fine with being blamed in public.
Given the nature of the weapons involved, I donāt think there could be any obvious proof one way or the other - short of verified leaks from inside Iran, which seems unlikely. That fact, but mostly the reputation of the US on the world stage right now, means that any sort of coalition in favour of military intervention with Iran is a laughable idea, and not something to worry about.
I think US sanctions and actions have made sure the hardline position is dominant, at least in Foreign Policy, and they want to show that war with Iran would be devastating to the region. Also, I donāt think they fear a war toppling the regime, so given how bad a shape the country is in now then a high risk gamble seems worthwhile.
NY Times should probably hire some more Bari Weiss types to fend off the criticism.
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is a journalistic disaster, being laughed at even in the most liberal of enclaves.
This part is true
Thatās just amazing.
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/amp/ncna1032841?__twitter_impression=true
This is where the US is headed if he wins
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I donāt spend a lot of time wracking my brain for comps, I just start typing and assume if I get close enough Iāll get some help. Millennial feels like one ānā to me for some reason.
The point is something in Chromeās spell checker is terrible with single/double letter gaffes.
How do you even combat this? Itās such a common belief on the right that the Civil Rights act magically erased all racism and Blacks have been living the good life since 1964 while poor olā white people are now targeted.
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Itās cultural tribalism at its worst and with major media networks perpetuating the problem there is no ācure.ā The best shot at tempering it is massive voter turnout and obliterating the republican party, funding education and hope future generations can learn from these mistakes.
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We should work with Europe and get some airbases there obviously.
This is why history class matters. This country hasnāt come to terms with almost any of the darker side of our history. We keep our people in the dark so that we can keep doing the same evil shit over and over again. If we taught them what we did in the past it might become politically difficult to keep doing awful stuff that benefits insert special interest here.
Poor people in particular are taught exactly nothing about the history of poverty in this country. The only difference on this matter between whites and blacks is that with blacks the powers that be care so little about them being happy with the government that they donāt even bother to pretty it up.
Thatās why all the bad stuff in the typical American history textbook takes up maybe 4-5 pages total (out of several hundred) and the rest is either meaningless dates and names without context or propaganda versions of the nice stuff we supposedly did.
Honestly there is no better representation of this than Thanksgiving where we celebrate the Native Americans helping the first wave of whites instead of acting in their own best interests (which would have been killing every single settler and dumping their disease carrying bodies into the ocean). An act that was repaid with one of the longest and largest genocides in human history.
The fact that the people of Appalachia are at all patriotic is mind blowing to me. The only way they could have been oppressed any harder is if they had actually been property instead of merely defacto property of corporate interests. If a coal miner in KY/WV/TN was killed in a likely preventable accident (all workplace accidents at the time were the responsibility of the worker not the employer) his wife and kids were evicted from the tiny house the company provided (on credit at an inflated price) by the end of the week. Sheād be a prostitute by the end of the year if her family couldnāt take her back in, and if she and her husband had any assets theyād be seized to pay back the miners debt to the company store. And mortality rates in the mines back then were astronomical.
Thatās the history of poor whites in this country in most places. Working for slightly less than what it cost to live slowly becoming more and more in debt to the company that owned them. Blacks unfortunately can honestly say that they had it even worse.
It took a 20-30 years of pretty hard core labor violence to get poor whites anything resembling a life worth livingā¦ and blacks very often donāt have that almost a century later.
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This is a chezlaw school of debate killer. How can you reason with people who believe whites are the most discriminated group? It is impossible. All that is left is to make fun and belittle them while mobilizing everyone who does not belong to that group to vote.
You guys know they donāt necessarily believe that, right? They respond to surveys with whatever they imagine someone from their tribe is supposed to say or whatever will stick it to the libs.
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