How many Palestinians are gonna be killed by a Trump presidency vs a Biden presidency?

I’ve got more uncles than my siblings and I can cancel out - wanna help us? :P

To be clear, I didn’t necessarily state I advocated for those things, but the prompt was for what interests the US has in being involved in Ukraine.

Whether it is right or justified is another matter, but it is undeniably of significant importance for a state to be able to show it can project force/inflict harm on those it deems a problem.

As for US involvement in the Middle East…yeah…not great. US involvement in Ukraine? I’d say it’s a different story since we are actually wanted there by the Ukrainian people, and it is reasonably likely that Russia would be involved in Ukraine whether or not it wished to be involved with the West, as it is valuable land in an area of historical Russian influence, and the crackpot ideology of Putin’s Russia all but demands its subjugation (no, really, shit’s wild).

I think you’re conflating “maintaining a global hegemonic order” with “fucking up a nation that has actively tried to harm the United States AND is provably committing war crimes.”

Is American hegemony all sunshine and roses? Fuck no lol

At least it is built more on consensus of member states than a hegemony built up by dictatorships like Russia (which, let’s be real, isn’t ever gonna be a global hegemon) or China?

Not giving a hostile power control of 20% of the world’s grain supply is a good one.

Demonstration of American commitment to stopping its enemies worldwide is always handy.

Weakening of a major geopolitical enemy’s military capabilities for a fraction of the cost of a conventional war.

That’s just off the top of my head, though.

…until the big party that wants to end democracy makes that entire point moot.

No chance of a third party getting more votes if the entire system it was created for is destroyed lol

I’m guessing their tune about France changed when they joined the 8 Nation Alliance 50 years later

Is your friend a Cold-War era Romanian dictator?

Same lol

Between that and the random shit it has listed as what I get ads for…it isn’t a whole lot. I spend most of time looking up highly specific things on Wikipedia or out of immediate utility, so I suppose I’m just not that interesting…also ublock origin ftw

I got EoD edition back in like 2017 and played it for a fair bit, but I’ve maintained for years that BSG is a shit company and the best possible thing to happen is for a new game that is very similar to come out and gut their playerbase.

Tons of people called me an idiot back when I said this in like 2020, so it’s good to see at least some level of pushback - now we just need that replacement game and BSG is screwed (especially since they still do wipes, meaning there is less sunk-cost fallacy to keep people around).

This is obviously just bait lol

That said, the comments on that site are pretty funny.

My favorite is the dude crying about how the Arabs stole Israel from the Jews whereas the Jews got it from God. Like, did he not read the Bible? What happened to the Canaanites???

Good times…

I’m of the mind that she is of use to my current aims so I’m indifferent to her, but at the end of the day she is still probably not on my side completely.

I’ll take her essentially speaking against Republicans and being rich if it means Republicans lose because of it.

It arguably gets better than that - the 61 billion was already spent on making the things; Ukraine isn’t just getting $61 billion handed over to it lol

NPR getting attacked by Republicans for following basic journalistic integrity and combating disinformation. Maybe it wouldn’t have such a “liveral slant”" if Republicans stopped consistently lying lol