Seriously though, I didn’t know what it was. I had to look it up: https://github.com/Open-Wine-Components/umu-launcher

umu, what’s this?

It could be argued that the senate (also being unelected) is better at filling the role you ascribe to the GG. If anything it’s even better, since they don’t serve for a set term, and they have a much more involved legislative role.

Hell, Quebec still to this day hasn’t ratified the 1982 update. They kept using the notwithstanding clause for years until the supreme court unilaterally decided that since QC is part of Canada, the constitution applies there in practice despite them not signing it.

what a majority of the population, including an overwhelming majority of your own base

Source for this? Polls I’ve seen suggest otherwise, but maybe you have access to data that others don’t.

Huh?

Serious question: what do you think publicly repudiating Israel would do for the democrats’ chances of willing the presidential election? It makes sense for them to say nothing publicly while privately trying to tie down those loose cannons.

People here constantly repeating this is so tiresome. Read this: https://www.cnn.com/2024/10/08/politics/bob-woodward-book-war-joe-biden-putin-netanyahu-trump/index.html

Hmm yes, all Israelis are fascists. That definitely isn’t dehumanizing an entire people or anything.

Lemmy users casually talking about wiping a country off the map:

For other parrot enthusiasts who were wondering as I was, these seem to be Patagonian Conures (not endangered, and somewhat common as a pet). I hope this spurs people into conserving their habitat.

Americans stop making everything about the US challenge (impossible)

You know most other western countries support Israel too, right?

What levers of decisionmaking are manipulated by whom

I hope you aren’t saying what I think you’re saying here.

In any case, the main reason for western support of Israel is the same as the reason for western support of Turkey. Both have obnoxious leadership but both are in key geographic locations, and the value of having them on-side against their neighbours is greater than the value in cutting them loose.

Austria is very much right-wing too, so they’d be down for some anschluss action.

Of course it’s Hungary. What a sad state of affairs for the country whose brave resistance led to the term “tankie” being coined for the pro-Russian side.

The question is not whether their use is automatically a war crime, but whether the UAF would potentially use them as a war crime. Would you give them their nukes back?

The British Parliamentary Ministerial system combines the Legislative and Executive branches.

What leads you to believe this is accurate?

The supreme court is an altogether different branch of government so that comparison isn’t accurate at all, especially since commonwealth countries also have supreme courts.

Agreed. Ukraine’s thermite-launcher drones are terrifying enough. I’m not sure they have the restraint to avoid going too far with something like WP. Give them more F-16s instead.

That’s true, but I don’t know of a comparable position in the US. Perhaps a “cabinet” member, like the Secretary of State?

As to your point about favour-trading, that’s absolutely accurate, but I consider that more of an indictment of peerage in general. Within the bounds of the current system, for all its flaws, they are effectively colleagues, no?